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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 […]

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How journal aggregators can support the new UKRI Open Access Policy 

One of our priorities is to scale up our work with smaller publishers and societies to help them deliver full and immediate open access (OA) in a way that is easy to administer. We’ve developed a tailored approach to reflect the different resource, revenue and publication profiles of smaller publishers and learned societies. What does […]

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Collecting data on open access publications

Author: Amy Devenney (Research and Business Intelligence Strategic Lead, Jisc) In 2019, an article by the Knowledge Exchange (KE) demonstrated the difficulty of efficiently collating consistent article-level metadata to enable the monitoring and evaluation on Transitional Agreements  (TAs) and the burden this placed on our members. Therefore, over the last eighteen months, we have been […]