United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
As a result of the recent announcement that Jisc will cease funding of CORE from the 1st August 2023. The UKCORR Committee have sent this open letter to Jisc today. A similar letter has also been sent to UKRI, which is also replicated in this blog post. TO: Heidi Fraser-Krauss, CEO, Jisc Liam Earney, Managing…
The new UKRI open access policy, comes into place for articles next April and the new policy will enforce openness to monographs from 2024. There has been a plethora of communication across HEIs on messaging to Faculty and between UKCORR members on the best way on messaging to Faculty. The policy itself has brought up…
Regulations on the accessibility of new public sector websites have been in place for a while and it has been a requirement that from Monday 23 September 2019, public sector websites launched on or after 23 September 2018 must meet accessibility standards. This includes publishing accessibility statements, explaining how accessible their websites are. For existing…
Around 60 people from across the UK attended members’ day on the 10th September. We are very grateful to the British Library for providing the venue and sponsoring the refreshments and lunch. The feedback has been very positive with some useful suggestions for how we could improve the next members’ day. For example, by and icebreaker at…
One of the breakout groups at members’ day was on ‘ supporting funder policies’. Around 16 people attended this group and we had a wide ranging discussion that covered the implications of Plan S to the management of tracking open access payments. The clear messages that came out from this discussion were that we would…