ORCID link in the VRE ORCID is a unique research identifier belonging to you which distinguishes you from every other researcher. It allows you to store together all your research outputs within your account and share them between platforms. The VRE is able to push data to, and receive data from, your central ORCID account. …
In our final blog post to mark International Open Access Week 2021, we aim to explain what is mean by Persistent Identifiers (PIDs), why they are important, and how you can use them as a researcher to ensure your research is better indexed and identified to you as the creator. We expand upon the introduction to …
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Continuing our series of daily blog posts to mark International Open Access Week 2021, we wish to let you know of the exciting improvements to our repository that will allow all researchers, not just those who carry out practice based research, to create over-arching portfolios or collection records, to group and promote your research. We have …
UKRI Guidance for Authors The largest change you will notice in the UKRI’s new Open Access is that from January 2024 it will apply to monographs, book chapters and edited collections, as well as journal articles. On 28 November 2023, UKRI launched a new £3.5 million fund dedicated to supporting open access costs for monographs, …
Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish original research articles in any of Taylor & Francis Open Select journals at no further charge to the author. Open Select gives you the option to make your paper open access in one of 2,300+ subscription journals. These span across subject areas and include both Taylor & Francis …
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Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish their articles through Gold Open Access in select PLOS journals, without having to pay open access, or APC fees. This is because, as a university, we have entered into an agreement with PLOS, covering the cost of publishing in PLOS ONE and any of the community …
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Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish their research articles, review articles and rapid communications Open Access (OA) at no further charge to the author in Cambridge University Press gold and hybrid journals. To be eligible, articles must: Be original research – eligible article types are research articles, review articles and rapid communications – click here …
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*** This Blog Post has been updated in March 2023, to include the increased number of open access options available *** The last couple of years have seen many changes in open access possibilities at the University, for Open Access week, I will give you a round up of the options that may be open …
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Publications Router is now live. It helps automate the update and input of research articles in the Virtual Research Environment (VRE). If you have a journal article in the publication process, you may soon receive an email alert, or Task in the VRE, asking you to take action. What is Publications Router? Publications Router gathers …
Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish their articles through Gold Open Access in 900+ subscription journals in the current SAGE Premier package, the IMechE Journal Collection and the Royal Society of Medicine Collection PLEASE NOTE, THIS ONLY COVERS THE HYBRID JOURNALS IN THESE LISTS, NOT THE FULLY GOLD OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS. Original research papers, review papers, brief …
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