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Open Access Policy for REF 2029 published Open Access Policy for REF 2029 published : News article ID 3854331
25 March, 2025

Looking for a QUB thesis online? Here’s what to do Looking for a QUB thesis online? Here’s what to do : News article ID 2921661
25 July, 2024

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Queen's joins Scottish Universities Press Queen's joins Scottish Universities Press : News article ID 2641561
19 April, 2024

Queen’s University Belfast has joined Scottish Universities Press (SUP) in an exciting development for QUB academic monograph publishing.

A collage of speakers at the Open and Responsible Research Symposium, QUB
Fostering transparency and responsibility: the recent Open & Responsible Research Symposium at QUB Fostering transparency and responsibility: the recent Open & Responsible Research Symposium at QUB : News article ID 1852722
16 June, 2023

Queen's University is dedicated to promoting open research and responsible research assessment across faculties and schools.

Diamond
Open Access road to victory Open Access road to victory : News article ID 1707868
27 February, 2023

"We are definitely on the road to embrace Diamond OA, but there is still a lot of work to do. First and foremost, we need to convince ourselves that it's possible to do it on our own turf."

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Springer Nature journals negotiations Springer Nature journals negotiations : News article ID 1562641
18 November, 2022

UK institutions, via Jisc have two active agreements with Springer Nature, both of which expire on the 31st December 2022.

Queen’s signs up to Read and Publish deal with Elsevier Queen’s signs up to Read and Publish deal with Elsevier : News article ID 1346300
8 April, 2022

The Library has signed up to a Read & Publish agreement with Elsevier.

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UKRI’s new open access policy to apply from 1st April 2022 UKRI’s new open access policy to apply from 1st April 2022 : News article ID 1298575
15 February, 2022

UKRI’s new policy applies to peer-reviewed research articles submitted for publication from 1 April 2022.

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Cancer Research UK’s new Open Access Policy Cancer Research UK’s new Open Access Policy : News article ID 1274186
14 January, 2022

From 1 January 2022, if you have a CRUK funded research paper accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, you must ensure that the following requirements are met: