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Protecting University Repositories from Aggressive Web Scraping – Using Database Rights to Retain Control Over Academic Content

12th June 2025 estoica

Universities have long served as custodians of knowledge, investing heavily in infrastructure that ensures research outputs are preserved, discoverable, and …Continue reading →

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The story behind the journal: Medicine Anthropology Theory

27th November 2023 rebecca

The DOAJ has recently been celebrating 20 years of service. As part of their celebrations they have been interviewing editors …Continue reading →

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Launch of a New Open Access Journals Toolkit

3rd July 2023 rebecca

by Rebecca Wojturska, Open Access Publishing Officer, The University of Edinburgh On Tuesday 27th June, the OASPA (Open Access Scholarly …Continue reading →

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Some thoughts of the UKRI Open Access Policy on it’s 1st Birthday

1st May 2023 theo

Do you think UKRI’s’ open access policy for journal articles has made a significant impact on the scholarly publishing landscape …Continue reading →

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Rights retention policy: an update after 9 months

14th October 2022 theo

2022 has been a big year for open access at the University of Edinburgh. We started the year off with …Continue reading →

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Rights retention policy: an update after 9 months

14th October 2022 theo

2022 has been a big year for open access at the University of Edinburgh. We started the year off with …Continue reading →

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Making the most of Open Access resources

3rd August 2021 Lorna M Campbell

This handy one-page guide on making the most of Open Access resources was created by Information Services at the University […]

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Innovating with Open Knowledge

28th November 2017 OpenEdFeed – Open World

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of working with Morna Simpson, of Girl Geek Scotland, on Innovating with Open Knowledge, an IS Innovation Fund project at the University of Edinburgh, that aims to provide creative individuals, independent scholars, entrepreneurs, and SMEs with the  information literacy skills to find and access free and open research […]

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Open Unwrapped Dec 14th: Flammability of Christmas Trees

14th December 2016 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
University of Edinburgh festive bauble gift by Pingked (Flickr) CC BY-NC

Ever wondered how flammable your Christmas tree actually is? This technical report from the Ottawa Department of Forestry in fire research […]

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