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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 […]

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(Digital) Preservation first

If I was going there, I wouldn’t start from here… A little background (peppered with superlatives and speculation for good measure) … Ever since proto-humans first put marks on a cave wall way back when, producers and creators have been obsessed with preserving their legacy.  Sometimes they got it wrong (Oh Leonardo. Gesso, pitch, and […]