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Reducing Research Bureaucracy – Understanding the problems

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 […]

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Balancing the books (part 1)

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 […]

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CORE to become an independent Open Access service from August 2023

This is an excerpt of a joint announcement of Jisc and The Open University regarding CORE Jisc and The Open University have had a long-standing relationship delivering CORE (core.ac.uk) for over 10 years. During this time, the service has grown from a project to an important and widely used Open Research infrastructure. The current Jisc […]