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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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Balancing the books (part 2)

This is the second part of a two-part blog post. Part one discussed the various approaches to open access (OA) book publishing, including the Diamond model, and ended by asking how do libraries decide which new models to support? In part two, we acknowledge that libraries have to perform a balancing act and match up […]

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Digital collections General news Open research

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. […]