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

On the 4th April, the End-to-End OA and LOCH Pathfinder projects hosted a successful technical workshop in Glasgow looking at the functionality that’s offered by different systems for OA implementation. Short presentations and demos were given on how PURE, Converis, DSpace, EPrints, Hydra and Fedora, and Jisc Monitor support OA requirements. Parallel breakout sessions focused … Read more

On the 25th January, UCL hosted a Pathfinder workshop on the topics of: research outputs that fall under the exceptions category of HEFCE’s REF OA policy the use of subject repositories as places of deposit by researchers and their institutions. Following an update from Hannah DeGroff on the REF Compliance Checker plugin for EPrints and … Read more