Implementing open access: Practical steps your institution can take to make progress on the open access journey

Type of resource: Handbook, guide, textbook
Languages: English
Expert entity: Jisc
License type: CC BY-SA 4.0
Description

Open access (OA) to research publications brings with it significant benefits for UK institutions, researchers and research funders.

After several years of concerted effort to implement OA in the UK, following the Finch report in 2012, we have learned, and continue to learn, a great deal about what works well, and what works less well.

In this guide, developed alongside The Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL), Research Libraries UK (RLUK), the Association of Research Managers and Administrators) ARMA and the UK Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR), we have distilled some of this learning into a set of practical steps that institutions can take now, to ease the way.