Showcasing White Rose University Press: Quality and Innovation in Open Access Publishing

The universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York have all hosted events across 2024 to showcase White Rose University Press (WRUP). This series of advocacy events aimed to further raise awareness of WRUP and its focus on ensuring academic quality, promoting open access, and driving innovation in publishing. With authors sharing their experiences of open publishing … Continue reading Showcasing White Rose University Press: Quality and Innovation in Open Access Publishing

Recognising the work of our Open Research Engagement Leads 

In August 2023 the Open Research team welcomed three postgraduate researchers, Kirralise Hansford (Psychology), Luqman Muraina (Interdisciplinary Global Development) and Melissa Kays (Archaeology), as Graduate Engagement Leads for Open Research in each of our academic faculties. The purpose of their roles was to work with the Library, staff and students across departments and schools developing … Continue reading Recognising the work of our Open Research Engagement Leads 

Open Access Week 2023: Open access publishing – the growth of a community

Kate Petherbridge (Press Manager, White Rose University Press) on challenging the commercial focus in academic publishing Open access (OA) publishing is no longer new, though the OA landscape continues to evolve. There are now a range of publishers offering OA publishing routes. Numbers of new OA university presses continue to grow as more institutions see … Continue reading Open Access Week 2023: Open access publishing – the growth of a community

Open Access Week 2023: Every week is Open Access Week at York

Paula Schirrmacher (Research Intelligence Analyst) introduces a new dashboard which visualises the University’s open access publication practices. To monitor our progress in open access practices, the Open Research team combined internally collected data on open access routes and publicly available data on open access formats for University of York publications in this interactive dashboard. Cycle … Continue reading Open Access Week 2023: Every week is Open Access Week at York

Open Access Week 2023: Promoting preprints

Ben Catt (Open Research Librarian) describes the benefits of research preprint sharing and support provided by the University Library ‘Stack of books on table’ by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash The Open Research team recognises the importance of preprints – early versions of research publications, typically articles which have yet to undergo peer review – to … Continue reading Open Access Week 2023: Promoting preprints

Open Access Week 2023: Like an open book – an open access future beyond the journal article

Jon Cook (Open Research Project Officer) discusses the latest development in open access publishing for monographs and chapters Are you publishing your work open access? Until recently, the answer probably depended on the format of your research output. Open access for journal articles is extremely well established, having developed over the past thirty years to … Continue reading Open Access Week 2023: Like an open book – an open access future beyond the journal article

Open Access Week 2023: Next steps for the open research community at York

Open Research Graduate Engagement Leads Kirralise Hansford, Luqman Muraina and Melissa Kays outline their ongoing work creating and nurturing an open research community of practice at York The theme of this year’s Open Access Week is ‘Community over commercialisation‘ and the Open Research team are dedicated to nurturing a community of practice for open research … Continue reading Open Access Week 2023: Next steps for the open research community at York