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Balancing the books (part 1)

What is a BPC? The book processing charge (BPC) is a payment made to a publisher to cover the costs of publishing a book open access (OA), and includes the editing, production and dissemination of the book as well as arranging peer review, marketing and online hosting.[1] Although the BPC model is currently predominant, especially […]

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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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The American Chemical Society supplies full-text articles to Publications Router

The American Chemical Society (ACS), the leading US learned society publisher, has become the latest publisher to provide full-text journal articles for distribution to UK institutional repositories via Jisc’s Publications Router service. Building on transformative agreement ACS publishes more than 65 international journals covering research in chemistry and related disciplines. It is providing Router with […]