Long form scholarly works, such as monographs, book chapters and edited collections, will become in scope of the new UKRI open access policy if published after 1 January 2024. UKRI is developing a dedicated fund to support these new requirements. A variety of publishing models already exist to help cover the cost of publishing open […]
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General news on Jisc’s research activity
Colleagues in the edtech and co-design team at Jisc have just completed a round of interviews with researchers, research managers and funders. They were seeking to identify what’s working and not in terms of research support for administering research grants. This was in response to the report from the BEIS and UKRI commissioned independent review […]
What is a BPC? The book processing charge (BPC) is a payment made to a publisher to cover the costs of publishing a book open access (OA), and includes the editing, production and dissemination of the book as well as arranging peer review, marketing and online hosting.[1] Although the BPC model is currently predominant, especially […]