Tag: City Research Online

City Research Online – facts and figures

City Research Online (CRO) is the digital archive of research outputs produced by staff and researchers here at the Clerkenwell campus of City St. George’s, University of London. For International Open Access Week we’ve created an infographic with some key figures on CRO activity.  Upload figures 1,966 publications added to CRO in the last year …Continue Reading City Research Online – facts and figures

Some useful tools for your research

Library website It’s best to access everything via the CityLibrary website either via our Databases A-Z,  Journals A-Z or CityLibrary Search.  For electronic resources, this will help you to log in with your City credentials and enable you to access the content which City subscribes to more easily. CityLibrary Search is a great place to start your research. You can quickly discover relevant…Continue Reading Some useful tools for your research

International Open Access Week 2024

The 21st -27th October 2024 marks this year’s International open access week, an annual event organized by SPARC, a not for profit advocacy organization supporting research systems that are “open by default and equitable by design” (SPARC, n.d.). Open Access Week is aimed at engaging the global research community to learn more about the potential…Continue Reading International Open Access Week 2024

Finding Open Access Content

The amount of peer-reviewed open access articles available online is increasing every year, but it can be difficult to recognise and find them. Here are our top tips! How do I recognise if an article is Open Access (OA)? The open padlock symbol is a universal icon indicating whether an article is open access. Whenever…Continue Reading Finding Open Access Content

City Research Online – a year in figures

City Research Online (CRO) now contains 22,617 publications – most of which are journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and theses. This year visitors topped 150,000 largely from the UK, with the Philippines, USA, India and Germany rounding out the top 5 most heavy users. Overall however CRO attracts users from all over the world,…Continue Reading City Research Online – a year in figures

Publish Gold Open Access with City’s Transformative Agreements

Have you ever thought about publishing your research open access? Library Services has Open Access transformative agreements with 8 major publishers through which you may be entitled to publish your paper via the Gold Open Access route at no cost for you. The process for using each agreement varies between publisher, but in general you…Continue Reading Publish Gold Open Access with City’s Transformative Agreements

International Open Access Week

This week marks International Open Access Week, an annually held event to celebrate the open sharing of knowledge. Open access has the potential to change the ways in which academic research is conducted, and offers a range of benefits to academia, science, industry and wider society. This years theme is “Community over Commercialization,” referencing the…Continue Reading International Open Access Week

Finding Open Access content

The amount of peer-reviewed open access articles available online is increasing every year, but it can be difficult to recognise and find them. Here are our top tips! How do I recognise if an article is Open Access (OA)? The open padlock symbol is a universal icon indicating whether an article is open access. Whenever…Continue Reading Finding Open Access content

City Research Online – a year in figures

City Research Online now contains just over 20,000 publications – mainly journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and theses. This year there were nearly quarter of a million visitors largely from the UK, with the Philippines, USA, India and Germany rounding out the top 5 most heavy users. Overall however CRO attracts users from all…Continue Reading City Research Online – a year in figures

Publishing Open Access with City’s Transformative Agreements

Have you ever thought about publishing your research open access? Library Services has Open Access transformative agreements with 8 major publishers through which you may be entitled to publish your paper via the Gold Open Access route at no cost for you. The process for using each agreement varies between publisher, but in general you…Continue Reading Publishing Open Access with City’s Transformative Agreements