Oxford University Press (OUP) has added open access articles from its hybrid journals to Jisc’s Publications Router service, and is depositing articles even more promptly than before. This enables Router to pass the full-text articles on to UK institutional repositories sooner, helping institutions with OA policy compliance and avoiding unnecessary manual data entry.
Adding articles from hybrid journals
OUP has already been providing articles from its fully open access journals. Now OUP is also depositing open access articles from across its wider list of more than 300 hybrid journals, roughly doubling the article coverage.
Depositing full text earlier
Until now, OUP has provided articles upon publication of the complete journal issue. More and more of OUP’s journals are moving to a continuous publication model, so they will now deposit to Router as soon as the article has been published into an issue, rather than waiting for the issue to be complete. Many of OUP’s journals also publish articles when a corrected proof is available. Where that’s the only advance version, OUP will now deposit the corrected proof version to Router. Otherwise, articles will still be deposited at issue stage.
In all cases, repositories will still receive the full text of the version of record (VoR). The only difference is that the corrected proof will not include volume, issue and page numbers.
The corrected proof will usually arrive into repositories within six weeks – and often within half that time – from acceptance for publication.
Saving time and effort
These changes mean that deposits via Router will get into repositories first, before other deposit routes, reducing the need for manual capture of metadata and full-text files.
Further improvements to follow
OUP will work with Jisc over the coming months to review and add further improvements to the already rich metadata that accompanies these articles. It may also be possible to improve the timelines for even more journals.
Find out more
If you’d like to find out more about Publications Router, do please get in touch with us via our central helpdesk at help@jisc.ac.uk, mentioning Publications Router in your message.