Open Research

Open Research Activity at the University of Glasgow

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
• Open access repositories for publications, data, educational resources, theses and more.
• 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 and Enlighten: Publications collections policy
• An open access journals service to support staff and students who edit journals affiliated to the University.
• 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 including our new petabyte storage option for large datasets
• Reviewing data management plans
• Tools to support open research including a site licence for protocols.io

The University also has a Research Computing as a Service which provides related services 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.

Current 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.
2. The University is an active member of the United Kingdom Reproducibility Network Open Research Programme. We are currently involved in work packages to:
   • Explore better ways to define and measure indicators of open research.  A report from this work is due expected to be published mid 2025.
   • Establish a train the trainer programme to roll out important training to help researchers and research enablers in good research practice.    
3. We actively participate in national and international initiatives to support good open research practice.  For example we have representation on the Open Science Monitoring working groups.

 Watch our Open Research video to learn more.