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PALOMERA: the case for open access academic books

This is a guest post by Ursula Rabar, Project Community Manager at OPERAS. In January 2024, a new open access policy from UKRI for monographs, book chapters and edited collections comes into force. Jisc is supporting the implementation of this policy, and we feel that participation in the PALOMERA project will be of mutual benefit […]

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Open Institutional Publishing Association: Introducing a New Community of Practice

This is a guest post by Dominique Walker, Publishing Officer – Scottish Universities Press, and Kate Petherbridge, White Rose Libraries Executive Manager. We’re really excited to share information about a new association that will support open access publishing activities at UK universities. The Open Institutional Publishing Association will launch over the summer in 2023, and […]

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De Gruyter goes live on Publications Router

De Gruyter is now supplying full-text journal articles to Jisc’s Publications Router service, which then places them automatically into UK institutional repositories. Speedy delivery saves time and effort De Gruyter, an independent academic publisher with headquarters in Berlin, is depositing open access articles from all of its journals, whether wholly open access or hybrid, as […]