Useful resources
Publicity material
- Have you found enlightenment yet? become enlightened - deposit your research publications in Enlighten, Glasgow University's institutional repository (PDF). Leaflet produced by the University of Glasgow.
- Open access: guidelines for your research (PDF). Leaflet produced by the University of Edinburgh.
Sample copyright permission seeking text
Text used by Glasgow University:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am contacting you on behalf of [insert repository name and institution]. The repository [give url] provides access to the full text of publications. It is freely accessible on the Internet and is not for profit. Full bibliographic details are added to each item in the repository, including details of the first place of publication, copyright information and any alternative electronic locations of the article or book chapter.
[Insert name of author] who is a member of staff at [insert name of institution] would like to deposit the following publication from [insert name of publication]:
[Full bibliographic details]
I would be grateful if you would advise me if it will be acceptable for us to do this and if so if there are any restrictions, e.g. should the author post-print version be used for this purpose or can the publisher pdf be used.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please do not hesitate to contact me if further information is required.
Documents for making the case for an institutional open access mandate
- Draft research outputs access policy (PDF).
- Open access and institutional repositories: presentation to RPSC 29th September, 2005 (8 slides, PDF). A presentation by Chris Bailey and Susan Ashworth, Glasgow University Library.
Sample open access advocacy presentations
- Enlighten: Glasgow’s University’s online institutional repository (21 slides, PDF). A presentation by Morag Greig, Glasgow University Library
- Open access - what's it all about (23 slides, PDF). A presentation by Dr Theo Andrew, Edinburgh University Library.
Sample coversheet for articles
Open access and institutional repositories: some useful links
- Bailey, C.W. (2007). Open access bibliography: liberating scholarly literature with e-prints and open access journals
- Berlin declaration on open access to knowledge in the sciences and humanities
- Budapest Open Access Initiative
- House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (2004). Scientific publications: free for all? Vol.1: report (PDF)
- OAISIS: OAI Scotland Information Service
- Open Access Team for Scotland (2004). Scottish Declaration on Open Access
- Research Councils UK (2006). Access to research outputs: RCUK position on issue of improved access to research outputs
- SHERPA: Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access (2006). [SHERPA services including RoMEO, JULIET, OpenDOAR; Resource including guidance and advocacy materials]
- Swan, A. and Brown, S. (2004). JISC/OSI journal authors survey: report
- Swan, A. and Brown, S. (2005). Open access self-archiving: an author study. (Departmental technical report)
- Suber, P. (2007). Open access news: news from the open access movement [blog]
- Suber, P. (2007). Open access overview
- Wellcome Trust (2007). Position statement in support of open and unrestricted access to published research


