Plan S and institutional repositories – a response from UKCORR

8 February 2019 The United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories (1) (UKCORR) represents  about 600 library professionals and research administrators across 150 UK institutions working with and supporting open access repositories. Collectively, the members of UKCORR have significant experience in the implementation and development of national, funder and institutional open access policies. We strongly support…

Requesting permission: reflections and perspectives from the University of St Andrews

Kyle Brady of the University of St Andrews here expands on his popular presentation from our recent UKCoRR members day in the below post: In July I attended the UKCoRR Members Day and delivered a presentation on the subject of approaching publishers for permission from the perspective of someone working in open access/repository support. The…

Results of the Sherpa FACT accuracy testing – 95% accurate

UKCoRR welcomes the results of a  recent exercise – undertaken by UK librarians, repository managers and Sherpa Services – that has shown that the results produced by SHERPA/FACT (Funders & Authors Compliance Tool) have an accuracy rate of over 95% The FACT service was developed to help researchers get a simple answer to the question…

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