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What is an Open Access Agreement?
Transitional Agreements (aka Read and Publish) are agreements between an institution and a publisher where the subscription and publish fees are bundled into one package.
Members of the institution then have read access to the…
What are the Creative Commons licences?
Creative Commons (CC) are a suite of licences that an author applies to their work to set out the terms of how it can be shared and reused. CC licences allow you to make your work openly available…
Open Access can feel like a maze of options, but fear not – our Open Research Team are here to simplify the journey.
Short on time? Check out our brief video for a quick overview.
Open Access means making a research output freely available to read, download and reuse…
If you are worried about posting a preprint, don’t be! There’s lots of good reasons to consider posting a preprint.
Demystifying Preprints
A preprint is an early version of a scholarly article that hasn’t been peer-reviewed orpublished in a journal or…
I was looking for a fun little anecdote about open research for National Appreciate a Dragon Day (I’m sure you all have that on your calendars – 16 January) when I stumbled upon a pretty fascinating story about the benefits of open culture and dragons…..and dungeons even.
Hearken ye to…
