Scholarly Communications – Research Office

Research Data Management for Open Access Week 2025: Who owns our Knowledge?

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications October 21, 2025No Comments

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, …

Open Access Week 2025: Who Owns Our Knowledge?

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorised, University of Westminster Press, UWP, VRE, WestminsterResearch October 20, 2025No Comments

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

Publish Open Access with ACM

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, Repository, Scholarly Communications March 13, 2023April 24, 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 …