Academic Newsletter October 2017

"Knowledge Unlatched opens up its open access crowd-funding platform Knowledge Unlatched has announced that it will open its scholarly open access crowd-funding platform to publishers and open access initiatives, helping them to manage the funding processes for their OA business models, and providing funders and libraries with a central place to support OA programmes. In addition to sharing its expertise and experience in funding OA initiatives, and its network of OA-supporting libraries, KU will also manage sales outreach, marketing, discoverability, finance and administration."