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

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications April 1, 20250 comments

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 agreement with Cogitatio, covering the cost of publishing in: We strongly encourage you to take …

International Open Access Week 2024

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Scholarly Communications, University of Westminster Press, UWP October 22, 2024October 22, 20240 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 …

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, 20250 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, 20230 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, 20231 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 …

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, 20230 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, …

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, 20230 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 …

Publish Open Access with ACM

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications March 13, 2023April 1, 20252 comments

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 …

Preserve your research data FAIR-ly

by Holly RangerOpen Research, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications January 10, 20230 comments

The University’s new Research Data Management (RDM) Policy (2022) sets out a series of key expectations to aid you in meeting best practice in the management and preservation of research data. One key expectation is that research data selected for preservation beyond the lifetime of a project are deposited in an appropriate research data repository …

Open Access Week 2022: Open Access and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

by Holly RangerOpen Access, Open Research, Public and Community Engagement, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorised October 28, 20220 comments

Our final post for #OAWeek is a guest blog from Philippa Grand, Press Manager at the University of Westminster Press. You can find the Press on twitter @UniWestPress Since their launch in 2016 there has been much interest from universities and publishers in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Many universities have structured research priorities around …