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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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Open research Research information and analytics

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 […]

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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 […]