Research and Digital Creativity

The library offers cutting-edge digital labs available to all our members, as well as guidance and services for anyone producing or supporting open research at York.

Our Digital labs

We have two labs in the Fairhurst and both are open to all students and staff to use. The easiest way to remember the difference is that the Creativity Lab focuses on software: high-end gaming workstations, with access to Virtual Reality (VR) equipment and other emerging technologies. YorCreate is all about hardware: a maker-space with 3D printers and other tools.

Creativity Lab

Featuring high-end equipment allowing you the opportunity to play with and learn about emerging technologies through a range of practical workshops, masterclasses and technical support.

YorCreate

An exciting new makerspace and digital crafting area, for students, staff and researchers to experiment with 3D design, scanning and printing and other digital creativity tools.

...a fantastic, inspiring intro to VR! Sam is such a knowledgeable and delightful facilitator/teacher! He turned the whole session into a fun and interesting experience.

York member of staff

Supporting open research

Open research practice enables a wide range of audiences to freely discover and engage with our excellent research, makes the research process transparent, and creates new opportunities for outputs and methods to be reused, reproduced and credited.

Open Research Team

We provide guidance and training to help you plan, publish, preserve and share your research.

Open Research Toolkit

An accessible guide to open research practices and principles for researchers in different areas at York.

Open access and publishing your research

Services and support for publishing your research, including routes, requirements and funding options for open access publication

Managing your research data

Helping you plan, manage and share your research data effectively, and in line with funder and University expectations.

Analysing and evaluating research metrics

Understanding research metrics, evidencing research strengths and impact, and building and promoting your research profile

Choosing a route to open access

Making journal articles open access is vital to increase the reach and visibility of research, and to meet funder and REF open access requirements. There is an open access route available for almost all journals, but understanding the available options is not always straight-forward. The library has created a set of resources to help authors at York navigate this landscape.

The Open Access Routefinder is an interactive tool which will tell you about open access options for your chosen journal, point you to Library guidance, and guide you towards the next steps you should take.

Watch our video on Choosing a route to open access for your journal article, or take a look at our Open Access Options infographic.

The Routefinder tool is in Beta and we would like any feedback or suggestions that you have for improvements. Use our online feedback form to tell us what you think.

Open Access Routefinder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNXnA2o1Er4

Choosing a route to open access for your journal article (Youtube)

White Rose University Press

Jointly run by the White Rose Universities of York, Leeds and Sheffield, White Rose University Press (WRUP) is the University of York’s in-house, fully open access university press.

Supporting the wider open research ecosystem

The Library proudly supports a range of initiatives, tools and infrastructure services which are helping to facilitate the shift towards open research practice on a local and global scale.

Our open research repositories

Researchers at York can make different types of research outputs open access (publications, datasets and theses) by depositing them to one of our institutional repositories.