January 2021 marked the launch of the new Wellcome Open Access (OA) policy and the start of the second year of the UK Wiley Read & Publish agreement. We’ve recently added resources to our webpages to help institutions support Wellcome-funded authors and get the best out of Read and publish agreements. Wellcome compliant publishing options […]
Jisc and the OA Switchboard have established an agreement allowing UK universities who are Jisc members to use the service for free! Back in December 2020, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Wellcome and Jisc were among the first organisations supporting the establishment of a new body called the Open Access Switchboard. The Switchboard’s aim is to help the research community […]
In December we ran the first event of the new Jisc digital research community and published a discussion paper outlining possible aims for the community. The webinar and paper were the culmination of six months’ of discussion within the community’s council, a core group of over twenty volunteers representing various parts of the research community. […]