By Sarah Stewart, Research Data Manager Data is fundamental to research, providing the ‘evidence’ to validate research findings, make the research process transparent, and underpin publications, research practice and creative works. Like publications such as journal articles or book chapters, research data are increasingly being viewed as outputs of research in and of themselves. However, …
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International Open Access Week (October 20-26) aims to challenge traditional models of knowledge ownership. We need to reflect on who controls access to research and scholarly outputs, whose voices are amplified or marginalised, and how knowledge can be equitably shared for the common good. This year’s theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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ACM OPEN enables all corresponding authors affiliated with our institution to publish scholarly articles with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on a completely open access basis without needing to pay any individual article processing charges (APCs). All research articles and conference proceedings with a corresponding author from the University of Westminster are made OA …
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