We’ve developed new resources that allow you to search and browse our publishing agreements by journal title and subject The Read and Publish agreements that … Read more
Category: Research support
Using other academic libraries: the SCONUL Access scheme
Do you sometimes spend time in another university town and would like to use their library? Does another academic library have specialist material you’d like … Read more
Over 200 Kent articles open access and thousands of pounds saved – early news of the value of our Read and Publish agreements
Over the last two years Information Services has been evaluating and entering into new agreements with journal publishers. These Read and Publish agreements are being … Read more
A big deal. Elsevier and the University of Kent
The contract between academic publisher Elsevier and UK universities is due for renewal in December 2021. What does this mean for Kent? The University of … Read more
Accessibility and inclusion news: Accessibility requests
Imagine that a newly built public building doesn’t have step free access. Instead, a flight of stairs leads to the front door. The building exists … Read more
New UKRI Open Access policy – what we are doing to help
UKRI has published a new Open Access (OA) policy. This post outlines the university’s response, and what we are doing to help our researchers meet … Read more
New UKRI Open Access policy – what researchers can do
UKRI has published a new Open Access policy. This post provides some very early advice about what you could start doing now as a researcher … Read more
Accessibility and inclusion news: Technical improvements to our institutional and data repositories
Both the Kent Academic Repository (KAR) and the Kent Data Repository (KDR) have been around for some time but needed work to improve accessibility. … Read more
What happens when you find your open access PhD thesis for sale on Amazon?
Last year a number of early career academics discovered that their PhD theses, which had been deposited in institutional open access repositories, were being sold … Read more
How to Archive your Website
If you are including a website as part of your research project to either disseminate, gather or process data, you need to consider how you … Read more