Dear Colleagues,

In case you missed them, here are the most recent articles from UKSG’s open access journal, Insights:

Looking for commitment: Finnish open access journals, infrastructure and funding by Jyrki Ilva

“Many of the arguments used in discussions about open access (OA) are based on experiences within an international context, which is mostly dominated by big corporate publishers with high profit margins. However, most countries also produce their own domestic journals, which operate in somewhat different circumstances.”

People in the News Paul Ayris by Steve Sharp

Paul Ayris on UCL Press’ strategy - "creating impact through open access" from the first fully open access university press in the UK.

How green is our valley?: five-year study of selected LIS journals from Taylor & Francis for green deposit of articles by Jill Emery

"In regards to librarians' behavior, both practicing academic librarians and LIS faculty, the overall openness of scholarship is low".

Cultural, ideological and practical barriers to open access adoption within the UK Academy: an ethnographically framed examination by Gareth J. Johnson

“Despite the endeavours of OA practitioners [..] the majority of scholars’ understanding or embrace of openness within research dissemination practice was found to be ‘patchy’, ‘ill-informed’ or ‘confused’”.

Staffordshire University’s Koha journey: taking an integrated approach to supporting an open source library management system by Vicki McGarvey

Vicki McGarvey on the increasing use of opensource for library management systems and Staffordshire University’s project to move to kohails (and lessons learned!).

Publons: releasing the untapped power of peer review for universities by Joanna Wilkinson and Penelope Down

"It is no longer enough for researchers just to be doing research: funding organisations are looking for new indicators... to identify the up-and-coming experts in breakthrough science".

The once and future library: the role of the (national) library in supporting research by Torsten Reimer

"Material that is not easily discoverable... online is at risk of becoming invisible, and that particularly affects heritage collections".

View all articles here.

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Thanks for your attention and we hope you enjoy the articles.

Maria Campbell

Digital Communications Associate, UKSG

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