MyGlasgow News

Enlighten, the University's publications database and open access repository, has recorded its one millionth download of Glasgow research.

The one millionth download was a 2004 conference paper by Professor Stephen Brewster entitled "Tactons: structured tactile messages for non-visual information display" eprints.gla.ac.uk/3443/. There have been over 12,300 downloads of Professor Brewster's papers in Enlighten since January 2009.

Susan Ashworth, Deputy Director of Library Services, was delighted to present Professor Brewster with a bottle of champagne and said: "Downloads and access to Enlighten continue to go from strength, demonstrating the importance of making the University's research freely available".

A download statistics dashboard eprints.gla.ac.uk/cgi/stats/report has been added to Enlighten which enables staff to see the overall downloads as well as their own download totals or those of their school or College. A similar dashboard has been added to the Glasgow Theses service theses.gla.ac.uk/cgi/stats/report and there are now over 60,000 theses downloads per month.

Enlighten, Open Access and RCUK/Wellcome Funded Papers

RCUK and Wellcome require that journal articles and conference papers arising from RCUK grants must be open access. This can be done either by deposit of the full text into Enlighten or the payment of an open access charge, depending on the publisher and the funder.

The university has a block grant to support Open Access for RCUK funded research. Funding from the Wellcome Trust is also available. Whenever any article is accepted for publication authors should contact the Open Access team research-openaccess@glasgow.ac.uk and they can advise on the options available to comply with RCUK and Wellcome's open access policies.

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First published: 10 April 2014