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Last month LSHTM Research Online had over 160, 700 full text papers downloaded with the top three downloading countries being the UK, Germany and US. This is a significant increase on downloads from this time last year. Over the last…
It is Open Access Week on October 19 – 25, 2015 and LSHTM is taking part with a number of activities across the School.
Kicking off events on Monday, John Murtagh, Manager of LSHTM Research Online will give a briefing on how researchers can make their work Open Access without having…
LSHTM Research Online – the School’s research repository for outputs – has re-launched its statistics dashboard and the image above includes the number of full-text downloads for items between January and June 2015.
Over this period nearly 220,000 downloads of items took place with the most downloaded item…
Gold open access doesn’t come cheap. In the last academic year LSHTM authors produced 126 Open Access research papers which were paid from Wellcome Trust, RCUK, COAF and the School Open Access Fund at a total cost of £255,391 . The average cost of an article processing charge (APC…
Researchers at the School who are in receipt of funding from the Wellcome Trust and have had an open access fee paid have a number of requirements when publishing.
They should license the research papers using the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC-BY) so they may be freely copied and…
Sanctions could be as much as 10% of the value of the grant
The Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) is a partnership between Arthritis Research UK, Breast Cancer Now, the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Bloodwise, Parkinson’s UK and the Wellcome Trust and those researchers funded by them…
Research Councils UK (RCUK) has recently announced the amounts that it will be paying to institutions in the block grant to support the implementation of its open access policy. Since April 2013 the grant to universities and eligible research organisations has been used to cover the cost of article processing…
A pilot will be launched in spring 2015 which will provide funding to cover all or part of the post-grant open access publishing costs associated with projects funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
This pilot is necessary as opportunities to publish often occur near the end of a…
Image caption: LSHTM Research Online statistics info-graphic for December 2014.
Last month LSHTM Research Online had over 22,200 full text papers downloaded. The top three downloading countries last month were Germany, US and UK. Below are the top five downloaded papers for December:
Kinoti, G; (1966…
Image caption: LSHTM Research Online statistics info-graphic for November 2014. Info-graphics are created monthly and can be download from LSHTM Research Online.
Last month LSHTM Research Online had over 27, 500 full text papers downloaded. The top three downloading countries last month were Germany, US and China. Below…
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