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PLOS Open Access membership

With the number of publisher deals growing, we wanted to showcase one particular publisher agreement which may have slipped under the radar – PLOS Community Action Publishing and Flat Fee model. The publisher…

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New De Gruyter Read and Publish deal

We are pleased to confirm that Jisc has renegotiated the De Gruyter Read and Publish deal. Principally this was in order to ensure UKRI-funded researchers could continue to benefit from the deal once the new UKRI Open…

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Over 22,000 items in the Repository!

This week the University reached another milestone – with over 22,000 items now in the institutional repository! The majority of these items are freely available to view and download, free of paywalls and other…

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Wellcome Trust Open Access policy 2021

The Wellcome Trust Open Access policy has been substantially changed, and beginning January 2021 all Welcome-funded researchers will need to ensure their research outputs are compliant with the new requirements. This…

Wiley deal further amendments

The Jisc Wiley read and publish deal was introduced this year, the principal aim of which is to encourage publishers to move away from subscriptions to an open access business model. Read and publish deals such as this…

JISC Wiley deal amendments

Back in April we promoted the new Wiley Read and Publish agreement, negotiated by JISC on behalf of UK academic institutions – https://openresearch.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2020/04/jisc-strikes-deal-with-wiley.html The deal…