United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
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…
We were very fortunate to have five very good lightning presentations at members’ day. Nancy Pontika at the Open University started us off by talking about some research she had started around the future of scholarly communication professionals. Over an eighteen month period (March 2015 – September 2017) Nancy has collected job adverts relating to open access. The aim…