Open research

Removing barriers, embedding open practices and developing open infrastructure. 

Open research extends beyond the boundaries of open access articles to all research outputs, including metadata, data, algorithms, code and software, as well as the processes and management of research itself.  

Key services

Policy compliance

Helping you to meet and demonstrate compliance with different funder and publisher requirements.

Services

Sherpa services
Tools to access and comply with OA archiving policies

Publications Router
Populates repositories automatically

OpenAIRE national OA desk (NOAD)
Support to comply with the EC's OA policy

Jisc Collections support for OA
Global OA compliance standards for publishers

Monitor Local
APC and compliance reporting

Cost management

Support with improving your processes and systems; and providing shared services, in order to save costs.

Services

Jisc Collections support for OA
Negotiating with publishers to constrain OA costs

Monitor Local
APC management and reporting

Monitor UK
APC management

Preservation
Keep your digital assets and collections usable

Research outputs repository systems purchasing
Purchase a repository from pre-qualified suppliers

Discovery, usage and impact

Supporting you to improve the visibility of your repository and demonstrate the reach and impact of your research.

Services

CORE
Aggregation of OA content from repositories and journals

IRUS-UK
Standards-based statistics aggregation service

OpenDOAR
Global directory of OA repositories

Metadata and interoperability

Helping you to overcome interoperability issues between funder, publisher and institutional systems.

Services

ORCID consortium membership
Including technical support

A new way to publish your research 

Open by design, Octopus is free to use and publishes all stages of the research process, whether it is a hypothesis, a method, data, an analysis or a peer review.

Find out more about Octopus.

Member stories

Valerie McCutcheon
Research information manager, University of Glasgow