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The new Wellcome Trust Open Access (OA) Polic y will apply to any article that includes original, peer-reviewed research and is submitted for publication from 1 January 2021. Changes in a nutshell No embargoes accepted All research articles must be openly licensed Wellcome no longer providing funding for Article Processing Charges (APCs) in subscription/hybrid journals UNLESS they are part of a transformative agreement New grant condition added, namely, that all WT grant holders automatically grant a CC BY public copyright license to all their future Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAMs) This means that from 01 January 2021 a ll research articles supported in whole, or in part, by Wellcome must be: Made freely available through PubMed Central (PMC) and Europe PMC by the official final publication date Published under a Creative Commons attribution licence (CC BY), unless they have agreed, as an exception, to allow publication under a CC BY-ND licence Guidance and routes to compliance WT h...

Early observations from the ‘Open research practices, engagement and perspectives’ survey. By Tom Moore  With the 2020 Open Access Week theme “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion” we thought this would be a good opportunity to give some early observations from the survey conducted between May and October 2020 of Leicester researchers on ‘Open research practices, engagement and perspectives’. The observations will focus on two areas: Potential for local structural inequity and exclusion: Role (the position in research career) External research funding The survey was jointly produced by the REF environment and library research services teams. For the research services team, the primary purpose of the survey was to take stock and get a picture of where the research community at Leicester are with the Open Research agenda. To identify potential case studies and to help us target and develop our advocacy, training and engagement program. ...

 EThOs - e-theses online service A free database provided by the British Library which searches over 500,000 UK Doctoral Theses, including those from the University of Leicester. Conduct your search. Search results with a green open padlock symbol mean that the full text of the thesis is available for free download. Click on the result you are interested in. You should then see more details about the thesis, including an abstract. You might be given more than one option for downloading the full text PDF of the thesis - either from EThOS or from the Institution that awarded the PhD. In order to download from EThOS you need to create a free EThOS account. Not all theses included in EThOS are available as full text PDFs. Some will have restricted access and some may not have been digitised. Those with restricted access will have a brown dotted padlock symbol next to them and those that have not been digitised will have no padlock symbol. Click on a result for more details. You will cu...

The Library research services team and its services pivoted to an online/virtual only service delivery offering in March 2020 due to COVID-19 lockdown, and we have been connecting and meeting with our users and internal and external stakeholders this way since. We regularly update our blog post , which outlines the services and support we are providing for our PhD students and researchers during this period. Source: Image by  Abdessamad Jdaia  from  Pixabay We have had to adjust and in some ways reinvent and evolve some of our services to reflect the COVID-19 restrictions and we are also doing our annual planning as well as specific COVID-19 service and scenario planning. I attended (virtually of course) some of the excellent LIBER2020 conference sessions and workshop sessions last week, and I was particularly struck by something that Dr Bertil F. Dorch, Library Director and Associate Professor, University Southern Denmark, said in his presentation, along the lin...

The University Library's research services team are celebrating  International Love Data Week  which runs from 10 - 14 February 2020. We support researchers and PhD students, in learning about effective data management practices, services and tools as well as how to organise your data, and advise on routes for data deposit, ensuring that, where feasible, you can make your research data outputs open, accessible, and discoverable for others to discover and reuse. We are publishing a series of themed blog posts this week on a variety of research data management topics and we are of course always available for face-to-face research data consultations to chat about your research and data outputs, providing support for data management plans, outreach and advocacy within departments and colleges, and we provide and support the research data infrastructure Figshare at Leicester , for those who wish to deposit their data in our institutional data repository, when a disciplina...