Open Research

The University of Glasgow has a long-standing service to support open research including open access to publications and sharing of research datasets. We provide support including:

• Case by case support for staff and students
• Training courses, presentations, guidance documents
• Publisher open access arrangements for research articles that have corresponding authors with a formal contract or student registration
• Support for the Research Publications and Copyright Policy
• Support with making books open access
• Support for checking open access requirements and options for funder and Research Excellence Framework requirements
• Managing and storing final datasets that underpin research
• Reviewing data management plans

The University also has a Research Computing as a Service which provides related services for live data storage including high performance computing and website hosting.

We keep informed of national and international developments as we are represented on many advisory and professional groups and frequently consulted as experts.

Specific Initiatives

1. As an initial measure to tackle the prohibitive cost of making a book open access, we have invested in the Scottish Universities Press a fully open access and not-for-profit press owned and managed by Scotland’s University Libraries.  The University is active on the managerial and editorial boards.
2. The University is an active member of the United Kingdom Reproducibility Network Open Research Programme. We have contributed to several initiatives and been provided leadership and expertise in projects to explore better ways to define and measure indicators of open research.
3. We continue to develop an open access journals service to support staff and students who edit journals affiliated to the University.
4. We are undertaking a self-assessment of our research data management approach based on the FAIR principles that consider if data is findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable.
5. With St Andrews and Edinburgh we recently completed a project to explore challenges in data sharing and provide better support for researchers and administrators.  During 2026-2027 we are embedding some of this work into services at the University of Glasgow.
6. We have set up a research data network to collaborate and share best practice.  We run sessions approximately quarterly and members can use the microsoft teams site to ask questions and explore previous discussions and meeting notes.