{"id":18,"date":"2014-05-12T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/openaccess\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2020-02-17T14:35:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T14:35:51","slug":"about-the-open-access-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/openaccess\/about-the-open-access-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"About the OA blog and project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/openaccess\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/openaccess\/about-the-open-access-blog\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">This blog is dedicated to Open Access and related scholarly communication and digital scholarship activities at Imperial College London, including research data management. It is managed by members of the Open Access project, a cross-departmental initiative that supports the transition to open access publishing at Imperial College.\u00a0We will share updates about \u00a0of the OA project as well as news about what is happening outside of the university.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">What is Open Access?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">In short, Open Access is the free and unrestricted online access to outputs of scholarly research. As journal articles and conference proceedings are particularly relevant for scholars at Imperial College you are likely to read a lot about these topics here, but we are also interested in monographs, research data and other outputs of research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">For more information, take a look at the <a title=\"Open Access at the Imperial College Library\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/scholarly-communication\/\">College&#8217;s scholarly communications website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">The OA blog at Imperial College<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/openaccess\">Open Access and Digital Scholarship Blog<\/a> is primarily authored by the Open Access Team in the Library but has contributions from other members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/research-and-innovation\/support-for-staff\/scholarly-communication\/open-access\/book-a-one-to-one-or-training-session\/\">Scholarly Communications Management team<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Contact<\/h4>\n<p>The Open Access team can be contacted via email <a title=\"openaccess@imperial.ac.uk link opens in a new window\" href=\"mailto:openaccess@imperial.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">openaccess at imperial.ac.uk<\/a> and by phone +44 (0)20 7594 2608. 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