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Understanding key concepts in the UKRI open access policy: new support resources available

As the Open Access (OA) landscape continues to evolve, with updated government funder policies affecting OA requirements, we’ve created a series of short guides which explain key concepts in the UKRI open access policy, as well as open access more broadly. Originally envisaged as resources to support publishers in understanding the steps they needed to […]

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Sherpa Engagement at Digifest

As part of our UX demo at this year’s Digifest, Sherpa Services would like to encourage our users and interested parties to get involved with the development of our product! We are currently undertaking a re-development project, the first phase of which is to create a new interface for the Sherpa Services, bringing together all […]

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Working together: how Jisc’s approach to stakeholder engagement is supporting the new UKRI open access policy for monographs, book chapters, and edited collections

The UKRI Open Access Policy includes a new requirement that from 1 January 2024, the final version of record or author’s accepted manuscript (AAM) of monographs, book chapters and edited collections must be made open access (OA) within 12 months of publication via a publisher’s website, platform or repository, with a Creative Commons licence.  As […]