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De Gruyter goes live on Publications Router

De Gruyter is now supplying full-text journal articles to Jisc’s Publications Router service, which then places them automatically into UK institutional repositories. Speedy delivery saves time and effort De Gruyter, an independent academic publisher with headquarters in Berlin, is depositing open access articles from all of its journals, whether wholly open access or hybrid, as […]

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Balancing the books (part 2)

This is the second part of a two-part blog post. Part one discussed the various approaches to open access (OA) book publishing, including the Diamond model, and ended by asking how do libraries decide which new models to support? In part two, we acknowledge that libraries have to perform a balancing act and match up […]

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The OA Switchboard and Jisc: What’s in it for HEI who are Jisc members?

Back in December 2020, UKRI, The Wellcome Trust and Jisc announced that we were the first organisations in the UK to support the establishment of something called the OA Switchboard. Shortly thereafter, Jisc announced that any higher education institution (HEI) who is a Jisc member could participate in the Switchboard for free for a three […]