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  UKRI Open Access Policy: how to comply from 01 st April 2022 The new UKRI Open Access (OA) Policy applies to research articles and conference proceedings submitted on or after 1 st April 2022, and to longform publications (monographs, book chapters and edited collections) published on or after 1 st January 2024. Local advocacy and engagement The University Library Research Services team manages the UKRI open access block grant (OABG) awarded to the University, and we have been busy in February and March delivering UKRI OA policy college and departmental level briefings, presentations, and Q&A sessions. All of the slides and recordings from the CSE, CSSAH, and CLS briefings are available to access from our open access hub in Sharepoint. If you would like us to come and deliver a session in your college, departmental or research group meeting, please do drop us an  email . We can tailor it to your requirements (virtual or f2f, length of session etc). How to com...

The Microbiology Society: fee-free Open Access publishing for University of Leicester authors in 2022 The University of Leicester Library has recently signed up to The Microbiology Society ' Publish and Read' Jisc Collections transitional Agreement ' for the period  01 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. This agreement is designed to provide maximum incentive for microbiology researchers working within the UK HE sector to publish their work in the Society's not-for-profit journals, an "all you can eat" (AYCE) Publish & Read model & there is no bar/cap on numbers of articles submitted nor published within the agreement period.  During the period of this agreement we will receive unlimited access to all paywalled content on their publishing platform , plus unlimited, immediate open access publishing of the Version of Record for all corresponding authors at participating institutions under CC-BY licence terms in the Society’s (four hybrid and two open acces...

Nearly all University of Leicester theses have been digitised and made available open access on the Leicester Research Archive (LRA) via Figshare. Some theses have an embargo, meaning you cannot read the full text of those theses, and there is a small number of historical theses that are only available in print in the library. Browsing Theses on the LRA Go to  Figshare Leicester Research Archive . Click on Groups. Choose University of Leicester Theses This will default to showing you the most recently uploaded theses. Browsing Theses by Department/School Please note this will only work for theses uploaded prior to October 2019. For newer theses please browse the Theses collection (as above) or search the archive (as below). Go to  Figshare Leicester Research Archive . Click on ‘search’. On the left hand side there are filters. Go to ‘Item type’ and filter by ‘thesis’. A list of theses will appear on the centre of the screen. To search for theses from your discip...