It’s the start of International Open Access Week 2025, with the theme this year of “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” The official hashtag of Open Access Week is #OAweek, so look out for events happening online.
Open access is the practice of making scholarly material (e.g. journal articles, book chapters) freely available via the internet, usually under terms and conditions that make sharing and re-use possible.
Institutional and subject repositories are collections of open access research and preserve the material on a long-term basis.
Here’s some facts and figures from our institutional repositories:
You can… explore more of our research
For articles, book chapters, conference papers and more:
St George’s Online Research Archive (SORA)
For data, presentations and more:
City, University of London research repository
St George’s, University of London research repository
Records from CRO and SORA are harvested to CORE, the world’s largest collection of open access research papers, for even greater discoverability by anyone anywhere with an internet connection.
Questions?
Clerkenwell and Moorgate authors should contact:
publications@citystgeorges.ac.uk.
Tooting authors should contact:
openaccess@sgul.ac.uk about publishing open access
sora@sgul.ac.uk about our publications system and SORA
For questions about research data management:
Library guides
City Research Online and open access (Clerkenwell and Moorgate)
Library Services for Researchers (Tooting)
Fascinating snapshot of how Library Services supports researchers across City St George’s. Thank you