2021-Q2

Mapping the minimal metadata requirements for the interaction of open access (OA) presses with the scholarly communications supply chain.

Joe Deville, a lecturer at Lancaster University and co-founder of ScholarLed and Mattering Press, introduces a new report exploring the potential for collaboration in open access publishing. He also looks at the role of other more troubling forms of collaboration in the academy

COPIM partner reaches first OA monograph milestone funded solely by ‘Opening the Future’ members

This means that UK libraries can now easily sign up to, and pay for, the packages of books on offer from the Central European University (CEU) Press through the standard Jisc catalogue interface. 

Highly-regarded UK university press launches library membership backlist subscription programme, to fund new OA books

Collective library funding model for OA monographs shortlisted for September prize