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Open access publishing and the power of the collective

The Open Access Community Framework (OACF) was launched as a pilot scheme in 2022 to connect not-for-profit open access (OA) publishers, operating under the diamond model (OA publishing with no subscription or author facing fees), with the higher education (HE) sector. Phase 2 took place in 2023 and focused on monographs and books to align […]

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Full-text articles from Oxford University Press go live on Publications Router

Oxford University Press (OUP) is now providing full-text articles to Jisc’s Publications Router service for onward distribution to UK institutional repositories. Articles from OA journals OUP is depositing articles from across its range of over 100 wholly open-access journals. Initially, they will supply the published version of record at the time of publication of the […]

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Supporting open access publishing for books: Collective funding models event summary

The UKRI open access policy for monographs, book chapters and edited collections goes live on 1 January 2024, and UKRI have confirmed that their ring-fenced fund of approximately £3.5 million can be used to support a range of open access models, including Diamond agreements (such as Purchase to Open or collective models) as well as […]