Did you know that CCCU has an open access policy? We do! And we’ve just revised it. But you might be thinking, what even is open access? At its most […]
Open Access Week 2022: Open Access at CCCU
Open access relates to how research is performed and how knowledge is shared. It is a concept that can be applied throughout the research life-cycle. Research should be as open […]
Open Access Week 2022: How does Open Access relate to Climate Justice?
“Open for Climate Justice” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 24-30). “Climate Justice is an explicit acknowledgement that the climate crisis has far-reaching effects, and […]
Open Access Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice
2022 sees the fifteenth year of International Open Access Week. As the name suggests, this is a worldwide event, and is seen as an opportunity to engage with people about […]
Can my students read my books? Guidance for academics on negotiating contracts with publishers
Background: what’s the problem? [This section adapted with thanks from the University of York Library’s Twitter thread] If you’re writing an academic book, you presumably want your students to read […]
Open access and social justice – structural equity and inclusion
For the third of our blog posts for Open Access Week, we are looking at how open access as a means of social justice. This post was previously published on this blog […]
Open Access Week 2020: 19th-26th October
2020 sees the thirteenth year of International Open Access Week. As the name suggests, this is a worldwide event, and is seen as an opportunity to engage with people about […]
An introduction to transformative agreements
CCCU has signed agreements with the publishers Wiley and SAGE to enable researchers at the University to publish their research articles open access. Authors submitting articles for publication in journals in these agreements will have open access fees (usually known as […]
A short introduction to open access monographs
Background: open access in the humanities and social sciences Most humanities and social sciences research output is in the form of monographs, whereas the sciences mainly show their output in […]