We are now putting the finishing touches to the 5th and final OAGP End of project event and on Friday 15th July we will be at the University of Bath for our Cost Management focused event. This event is being hosted bu the GW4 Pathfinder project in collaboration with Jisc.  The GW4 project was led by the … Read more

On Monday 4th July we will be in Edinburgh for the 4th of our summer events and the theme will be Metadata & Systems. The event is being jointly hosted by the LOCH and E2E Pathfinder projects in collaboration with Jisc.: LOCH – the LOCH Pathfinder Project has been led by the University of Edinburgh … Read more

Monday 27th June will see the 3rd of our OAGP Summer events.  Hosted by the opeNWworks project at the University of Manchester the theme for this event is ‘Workflows and Structures’. There is still just about time to register and you can do that by following this link to the event registration page: OAGP Workflows … Read more

Many busy months in preparation and reflective of 2 years project, the first of the end of Pathfinder project events was a huge success.  Some 30 of us came together on Thursday 9th June to discuss some of the best outputs from the pathfinder projects related to Advocacy in. As we move towards the end … Read more

There’s still time to register for the second of our Open Access Good Practice events being held next week (20th June) at the Jisc offices in central london. The theme of the day is OA baselining and policy. The agenda aims to showcase the work undertaken by the Pathfinder Projects during the last two years and … Read more

There’s still time to register for the first of our Open Access Good Practice events being held next week (9th June) at the University of Northampton. The theme of the day is OA advocacy. The agenda aims to showcase the work undertaken by the Pathfinder Projects during the last two years and facilitate the exchange of … Read more

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the summer series of Open Access Good Practice events to be held across the UK in June and July. As the two-year initiative draws to a close, these five events will celebrate the work done in different areas by the nine Pathfinder Projects and … Read more

Please find below details of five events being held this summer to celebrate the completion of the nine Pathfinder Projects as part of the Jisc-funded Open Access Good Practice (OAGP) initiative. The two-year projects have investigated, developed, and encouraged best practice for implementing open access (OA) within institutions under five themes: advocacy baselining and policy workflows and … Read more

The Jisc OA Pathfinder project on ‘Administrative Efficiencies for OA Implementation’ from the GW4 institutions (Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter Universities) have published APC Vouchers and Discount Codes: Recommendations for Institutions and Publishers on their project blog. The recommendations were derived from responses to a survey of UK HEIs on the benefits and issues of … Read more

Article processing charges (APCs) that are paid ‘in the wild’ is a phrase which refers to payments made to publishers to make research outputs openly available but that are not processed centrally within an institution. For example, this could be when researchers pay from their own pocket or draw from a funding source that their … Read more