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OA Academy

Open Access portal for students and young researchers Providing Resources, Support and Advice for students and young researchers in their journey from writing to publishing their scientific papers.

Repositories Support Project (RSP)

The Repositories Support Project (RSP) was a 7 year JISC-funded initiative contributing to building repository capacity, knowledge and skills within UK higher education institutions. Through providing guidance and advice, the RSP benefitted the whole of the UK sector and resulted…

OAI-PMH

The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability. Data Providers are repositories that expose structured metadata via OAI-PMH. Service Providers then make OAI-PMH service requests to harvest that metadata. OAI-PMH is a…

Erudit

Érudit is a non-profit interuniversity consortium. For more than 15 years, Érudit has provided the research and cultural communities with a wide range of services in digital publishing and dissemination, from data markup to document indexing through international content aggregators.

eLife

eLife is a non-profit organisation inspired by research funders and led by scientists. Our mission is to help scientists accelerate discovery by operating a platform for research communication that encourages and recognises the most responsible behaviours in science. eLife publishes…

Texture

A word processor for structured content. Texture is an open-source editing software specifically designed to edit and annotate scientific content. Texture has first-class support for JATS, the de facto standard for archiving and interchange of scientific open-access contents with XML.…

The Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI)

The Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) is a diverse, inclusive, global network of high level experts and stakeholder reps working together in partnership with UNESCO to develop broadly accepted, comprehensive, sustainable solutions to the future of open scholarship that work for…

Emerald Publishing

Emerald Publishing was founded in 1967 to champion new ideas that would advance the research and practice of business and management. Today, we continue to nurture fresh thinking in applied fields where we feel we can make a real difference,…

Overlay journals

Overlay journals – An open access, electronic journal that does not produce its own content, but selects and curates groups of articles that are already freely available online. An example of this is an ‘Epijournal’.

Journal

Journal – an aggregation of published research articles. Historically divided into volumes and issues.

Megajournal

Megajournal – a journal with editorial criteria based on scientific soundness instead of a priori estimated newsworthiness or ‘impact’.