Open Access – Research Office

Publish Open Access with American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications, VRE, WestminsterResearch May 13, 20220 comments

Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish original research articles in any of American Chemical Society (ACS)’s hybrid or fully Open Access (gold) journals. This ‘Read & Publish’ agreement will allow you to publish eligible articles through gold open access at no further charge to yourself. To be eligible: You must be the corresponding author …

Publish Open Access with Elsevier Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Scholarly Communications March 30, 2022May 13, 20220 comments

Authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish original research articles in any of Elsevier’s hybrid journals at no further charge to the author. This ‘Read & Publish’ agreement will allow you to publish eligible articles in a wide variety of participating Elsevier journals across disciplines through gold open access. To be eligible: You must be …

RKEO Grant Writing Group Programme

by Joshua MeadFunding, Impact, Open Access, Research Data Management, Researcher Development March 23, 2022March 24, 20220 comments

From October to March, the Research and Knowledge Exchange Office ran its inaugural grant writing group programme. In collaboration with experienced researchers from across the University, five workshops were held, aimed at equipping researchers with the tools and support they need to submit a large grant to a main funder. Our aim was to enable …

ORCID Integration with the VRE

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Repository, Research Data Management, Researcher Profiles, Scholarly Communications, VRE, WestminsterResearch February 14, 2022February 14, 20220 comments

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 now able to push data to, and receive data from, your central ORCID …

What are Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and how can you use them?

by Nina WattsImpact, Open Access, REF, Repository, Research Data Management, Researcher Profiles, Scholarly Communications, VRE, WestminsterResearch October 29, 20210 comments

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 …

How to license your research data

by Holly RangerOpen Access, Research Data Management October 28, 20210 comments

Research funding bodies, institutions, and publishers are increasingly encouraging or mandating that the research data underpinning your research outputs are also published and made available for validation and re-use by others. Applying a licence to your research data enables you to establish copyright and set out how and in what circumstances your research data can …

Advanced Portfolios in WestminsterResearch

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Repository, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications, VRE, WestminsterResearch October 27, 20210 comments

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 New Open Access Policy

by Nina WattsFunding, Open Access, Repository, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorized, VRE, WestminsterResearch October 26, 2021June 10, 20220 comments

UKRI Guidance for Authors UPDATED 28 MARCH 2022 – policy changes for journal articles apply to all articles submitted for publication from 1st April 2022 onwards. The largest change you will notice in the UKRI’s new Open Access is that it will eventually apply to monographs, book chapters and edited collections, as well as journal articles. …

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What is Open Research?

by Holly RangerOpen Access, Repository, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications, VRE October 25, 20211 comment

In the first of our series of daily blog posts to mark International Open Access Week 2021, we’re highlighting the tools, support, and infrastructure available at Westminster to support Open Research beyond open access to scholarly publications. Open Research (or, Open Science) looks different for each discipline, but it extends the principle of open access …

Publish Open Access with Taylor and Francis Journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Scholarly Communications April 22, 2021May 13, 20226 comments

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 …