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Report vindicates JISC's OA funding.
Byline: Tracey Caldwell
Report vindicates JISC's OA funding
Tracey Caldwell
Funding for publishers willing to trial open access (OA) publishing has allayed concerns about the OA business model, according to JISC. Its three-year project to fund and endorse publishers introducing the OA model has acted as a catalyst to publishers' development of open access, according to a report by Key Perspectives.
In addition to offering financial support to publishers as they developed their OA model, JISC paid some or all of the authors' fees that would normally have been charged by the publishers. Of the authors participating, 23% said this allowed them to publish in journals they would not have otherwise published in.
The initiative is one of a number run by JISC to support open access in both its forms: publisher open access and institutional repositories.
JISC has come in for criticism over its decision to support publishers though. Stevan Harnad, said: "The work JISC has been doing to promote open access journals has been ...
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