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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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Supporting open access publishing for books: myth-busting webinars event summary

As part of our work with UKRI to support the implementation of the UKRI open access policy for monographs, book chapters and edited collections published from 1 January 2024, we re-visited some of the key areas of concern for researchers that surfaced during the consultation period for the policy (see UUK Open access and monographs. […]

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General news Open research

Open access for book chapters: event summary

Long form scholarly works, such as monographs, book chapters and edited collections, will become in scope of the new UKRI open access policy if published after 1 January 2024. UKRI is developing a dedicated fund to support these new requirements. A variety of publishing models already exist to help cover the cost of publishing open […]