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Supporting open access monographs without the costs of book processing charges

This is a blog post by Caroline Mackay, licensing manager. Unlike journals, funder support and models for publishing monographs open access (OA) have been slower to proliferate. However, the announcement of the new UKRI Open Access Policy on 6 August details requirements for in-scope monographs, book chapters and edited collections published on or after 1 […]

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Boost your skills in working with digital collections

Posted on behalf of Peter Findlay Are you a researcher wanting to boost your skills in working with digital collections? Researchers often tell us that they have problems when they want to use digital methods to interrogate large archives, special collections, masses of catalogue records or aggregations of metadata. We are therefore pleased to announce […]

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Research, once removed – a Jisc / CNI conference preview

Ahead of this year’s Jisc and CNI leaders’ conference we asked closing keynote Dan Cohen, vice provost/dean of the library and professor of history, Northeastern University, for his views on what the library and research community have learned from the pandemic, the importance of sector events like Jisc and CNI and to preview of his […]