« UK Research and Innovation (better known as UKRI) directs the UK government’s research and innovation funding across all disciplines, to the tune of £8b annually, making it a force to be reckoned with in the UK and beyond. UKRI’s open access (OA) policy aligns with cOAlition S,…
« Volume-driven publishing pushes up costs and threatens research integrity. We need new agreements with healthier incentives, says Anna Vernon (head of research licensing at Jisc). (…) »
« Consortia representing libraries, finance directors and IT directors across HE have issued a joint letter calling on Clarivate to reverse its decision to discontinue the option for perpetual purchase of academic resources, as recently announced. Perpetual access to scholarly content – in both physical and electronic forms…
« Reducing research bureaucracy and fostering collaboration through better use of UK research data.
Jisc has been asked by the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology to lead the implementation of the digital and data recommendations of the independent review of research bureaucracy.
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« After recent reporting that three UK universities had ended their transitional open access agreements with the publisher Elsevier, Peter Barr explains why academic libraries are making these decisions and what it says about the wider academic publishing sector in the UK. (…) »
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« This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together. (…) »
« The new feature automatically updates the Octopus platform with government priorities to transform how researchers and policymakers collaborate. (…) »
« This study draws on a longitudinal dataset of 277 UK learned societies covering the period 2015–2023 to provide evidence-based insights into the changing landscape of society publishing. It identifies a rapid decline in the number of self-published societies and an increasingly complex outsourcing landscape. New publishing partnerships are emerging with…
« We commissioned London Economics to assess the impact of the UK higher education sector’s teaching, research and innovation activities on the UK economy, focusing on the 2021–22 academic year.
For every £1 of public money invested in the higher education sector across the UK, £14 is put back into the economy.
« A collectively authored response by the Copim community, in which we welcome the principle of open access by default in the REF 2029 open access policy for longform publications, but argue that it could provide clearer mechanisms for supporting Diamond open access publishing. (…) »
