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Scottish #ResearchIntegrity and Culture Week is finally here! 🎉
Check out the full list of events happening throughout Scotland, both in-person and online, here www.sricw.co.uk/programme

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Looking for a new challenge in 2026?

Join SUP and support not-for-profit academic publishing.
We have three vacancies for editorial board members.

Submit your application by Monday 2 February 2026
https://www.sup.ac.uk/news/editorial-board-vacancies

Our new Publications Policy, including a Rights Retention element for accepted manuscripts, will come into effect from 1st January. Find out more here: libguides.qmu.ac.uk/c.php?g=1632... #OAWeek

A new issue of Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy has been published on the QMU journals diamond OA publishing platform: journals.qmu.ac.uk/approaches/i...

Our updated guide explains predatory publishing in short, clear terms, perfect for quick learning and sharing. Feel free to use it in your own LibGuides or training materials.
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‘Business-as-usual’ offers from publishers raise walk-away fears Disappointing offers which ‘miss financial reality’ faced by UK higher education have heightened speculation that institutions will ditch proposed deals

Many UK universities are likely to walk away from journal access agreements after several publishers put forward “business-as-usual proposals” with “year-on-year price rises” rather than the cheaper deals demanded by national negotiators, a library chief has predicted. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports

New issue of the Approaches journal, published on our Queen Margaret University library journals platform, is available here: journals.qmu.ac.uk/approaches/i...