Open Research – Research Office

Publish without charge in in all five of Cogitatio’s open access journals

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications April 1, 2025September 3, 2025No Comments

Update 3 September 2025 – this publishing agreement will finish on 31 December 2025. Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish their articles through Gold Open Access in all five of Cogitatio’s open-access journals without having to pay open access (or APC) fees. This is because, as a university, we have entered into an …

International Open Access Week 2024

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Scholarly Communications, University of Westminster Press, UWP October 22, 2024October 22, 2024No Comments

Community over Commercialization Open Access Week 2024 will continue the call to put “Community over Commercialization” and prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community. Learn more here. University of Westminster Press One of the ways the University puts community over commercialization is through the University …

Research Integrity Annual Narrative Statement: February 2024

by Huzma KellyEthics, Integrity, Open Research, Research Governance, Researcher Development February 27, 2024February 27, 2024No Comments

The University’s latest Annual Narrative Statement around its work in the area of research integrity will shortly be published on the University’s public Research Governance website, where earlier iterations of the Statements can also be found. The Statements are made publicly available in order to provide information to all involved in research around the work …

UKRI Open Access Policy: Funding now available for open access costs for monographs, chapters and edited collections

by Nina WattsFunding, Open Access, Open Research, Scholarly Communications November 22, 2023February 27, 2025No Comments

On 28 November 2023, UKRI launched a new £3.5 million fund dedicated to supporting open access costs for monographs, book chapters and edited collections for UKRI funded authors who publish within the scope of their Open Access Policy. Monographs, book chapters and edited collections published on or after 1 January 2024 will need to be openly accessible within 12 …

Open Access Week: Community over Commercialization, October 23 - 29, 2023 #OAWeek

Open Access Week 2023: Community over Commercialization

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications, University of Westminster Press, UWP October 18, 2023No Comments

International Open Access Week (October 23-29) is an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems. This year’s theme “Community over Commercialization” encourages a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community-and which do …

Open Access Week 2023: Resources Available and External Events Coming Up

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications, University of Westminster Press, UWP October 18, 2023October 18, 2023One Comment

International Open Access Week 2023: Community over Commercialization, 23-29 October, 2023 Open Access Week 2023 is an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems. As part of Open Access Week our University of Westminster Press Manager, Philippa Grand, will be participating in a …

Transitioning from Doctoral Researcher to Early Career Researcher – recording available

by Ka-Ming PangOpen Access, Open Research, Research Data Management, University of Westminster Press July 20, 2023No Comments

The Research & Knowledge Exchange Office and Scholarly Communications Team recently ran an event aimed at Doctoral Researchers giving an overview of some aspects to consider as Doctoral Researchers build up a profile as a researcher. This was followed by an opportunity for attendees to hear Dr Elle Larsson share her experiences of being an …

The Altmetric Attention Score now in WestminsterResearch

by Nina WattsImpact, Open Research, Public and Community Engagement, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorised, VRE, WestminsterResearch May 11, 2023May 11, 2023No Comments

In order to record and demonstrate the impact beyond traditional metrics such as impact factors and citation scores, our research outputs have received, we have added the Altmetrics donut display to our WestminsterResearch institutional repository records. What are Altmetrics? Altmetrics (or alternative metrics) measure the impact of a scholarly research output based on online activity, …

2023 Culture, Employment and Development in Academic Research Survey (CEDARS) is now live!

by Holly RangerEthics, Impact, Integrity, Open Access, Open Research, Researcher Development April 11, 2023No Comments

The University is running CEDARS from 11th April to 26th May 2023. This is your opportunity to influence research culture and researcher development at Westminster. What is CEDARS? Designed in collaboration between Vitae, researchers, and researcher developers across the HE sector in the UK, CEDARS seeks to gather the thoughts and experiences of researchers around …

Articles, books, and data, and where to publish them

by Holly RangerOpen Access, Open Research, REF, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications, University of Westminster Press, UWP, WestminsterResearch March 20, 2023No Comments

The Scholarly Communications team recently held an information session on scholarly outputs and where to publish them. You can watch a recording of the session in Stream at this link (staff login). You can also download the presentation sides from SharePoint at this link (staff login). First, Nina Watts, Open Access and Repository Manager provided …