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New: Research Writing Group
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Open for climate justice – Open Access week and healthcare publications
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Why ‘open’ benefits readers and scholars worldwide
With the theme of ‘Open for Climate Justice’, this year’s International Open Access Week invites us to collaborate, making connections between the climate movement and communities of research users (universities, practitioners, policy makers, members of the public) worldwide.
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‘Open for climate justice’ – Open Access papers authored by researchers in Biology
As we explained yesterday, open access makes new research and data available to a wider audience, particularly those who have less or no access to traditional subscription journals. It can increase the citation counts and impact of research papers as scholarship gets disseminated more widely and reaches more readers. International Open Access Week celebrates open…
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Celebrate International Open Access Week!
What do we mean by ‘Open Access’? Open Access is the practice of making scholarly research and literature – available, online, to everyone – for free! Reading and sharing information freely and fairly can transform the way research and scientific inquiry is conducted. Having positive, direct and widespread implications for society, academia, medicine, science and…
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Researcher development training for 2022/23
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Add datasets to your Pure profile
Do you have a researcher profile in Pure? If so, you can now boost your profile by adding your datasets. Here’s how… Like journal articles, chapters, or books, a dataset is a research output in its own right and can be cited. If you choose to make them open, your datasets are best shared in…
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How do our read and publish deals work?
Edge Hill researchers (students and staff) now have many opportunities to publish their journal articles open access, including ‘gold open access’, which previously required expensive fees in most cases. Knowing which OA ‘deals’ we have though, can be confusing. Here we help you get to grips with them… Moving our research from green to gold…
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Elsevier ScienceDirect open access agreement launched
Jisc and UK Universities have concluded negotiations with Elsevier to agree a three-year read and publish agreement that will provide UK researchers with unlimited open access publishing across Elsevier hybrid journal titles, as well as significantly reducing total sector spend. Added to the sector’s existing read and publish agreements, this deal means that 80% of…
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Open Access Week: international audiences
