Author Archives: Karen Rowlett

Top tips for finding reputable Open Access journals – 2025 update

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Karen Rowlett

By publishing in a fully Open Access journal (one that is not funded by subscriptions, does not charge for readers to access the content and usually uses the Creative Commons licenses), you can get maximum exposure for your work as everyone … Continue reading →

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The CentAUR repository in 2024

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Karen Rowlett

This post can be viewed as a Microsoft Sway by members of University of Reading using the following link: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/bbwOHYiKG2zbZGFU?ref=Link The CentAUR repository enables outputs from the University of Reading’s researchers to be showcased, shared and reused. Access to CentAUR … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week 2023 – Publisher deals boost uptake of Open Access for Reading’s researchers

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Karen Rowlett

The University of Reading has signed up for over 20 ‘read and publish’ deals with major publishers over the past few years. The idea of the deals is that they combine the subscription and publishing elements together so that staff … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week 2023 – Publishing to benefit the microbiology community

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Karen Rowlett

  The Microbiology Society is a membership charity and a not-for-profit publisher. Its members are scientists interested in microbes, their effects and their practical uses. They are based in universities, industry, hospitals, research institutes, schools, and other organisations. The Society’s … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week 2023 – Creating a community Open Access journal

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Karen Rowlett

As part of Open Access week 2023, I interviewed Dr James Anderson about how he set up a Pure Gold Open Access journal, Transmathematica, to serve his community of mathematicians. James founded the journal in 2018 and the first article … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week 2022 – ibicus – a python open-source software package for the bias correction of climate models

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Karen Rowlett

The theme of the 2022 Open Access week was Open for Climate Justice. PhD researchers Fiona Spuler and Jakob Wessel are working on the biases in climate models that lead to difficulties in relating the findings of global climate models … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week – What is the Open Climate Campaign?

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Karen Rowlett

The Open Climate Campaign The theme of Open Access week 2022 is Open for Climate Justice. In this interview, I talked to two members of the Open Climate Campaign about their efforts to make research relating to climate change open … Continue reading →

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Making the most of SciFree – an interview with the company’s founder

Posted on October 26, 2022 by Karen Rowlett

SciFree is a clever tool that helps researchers at University of Reading find out which journals are covered by our Transformative Agreements and deals with publishers. With 17 publisher deals covering over 11,000 different journals it can be difficult to … Continue reading →

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Launching SciFree, a new tool for researchers at University of Reading

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Karen Rowlett

The University of Reading has lots of Transformative Agreements with publishers whereby staff and students can achieve Open Access for their research outputs easily. In most cases, no invoices are generated and permission for funding for the article processing charge … Continue reading →

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Open Access Week 2022 – The evolution of Open Access for journal articles at University of Reading

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Karen Rowlett

Open Access – part of the University’s commitment to Open Research At the University of Reading, we’ve been encouraging our researchers to make their work Open Access for many years either by publishing their outputs as Gold Open Access or … Continue reading →

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