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Open access for book chapters: event summary

Long form scholarly works, such as monographs, book chapters and edited collections, will become in scope of the new UKRI open access policy if published after 1 January 2024. UKRI is developing a dedicated fund to support these new requirements. A variety of publishing models already exist to help cover the cost of publishing open […]

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Reducing Research Bureaucracy – Understanding the problems

Colleagues in the edtech and co-design team at Jisc have just completed a round of interviews with researchers, research managers and funders. They were seeking to identify what’s working and not in terms of research support for administering research grants. This was in response to the report from the BEIS and UKRI commissioned independent review […]

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Subject analysis of routes to compliance for UKRI funded authors

As part of our work to support the implementation of the new UKRI Open Access policy, we have rapidly scaled up our negotiations and are now working with over 300 publishers (and have confirmed compliance of 100 more) across a broad range of subject areas using a range of open access publishing routes. The aim […]