Working together: how Jisc's approach to stakeholder engagement is supporting the new UKRI open access policy for monographs, book chapters, and edited collections - Research

by Graham Stone The UKRI Open Access Policy includes a new requirement that from 1 January 2024, the final version of record or author’s accepted manuscript (AAM) of monographs, book chapters and edited collections must be made open access (OA) within 12 months of publication via a publisher’s website, platform or repository, with a Creative Commons licence.  As part of our support for the implementation of this requirement, we are talking to publishers, the research community, libraries, and infrastructure providers through a series of roundtables, workshops and webinars in order to:  Raise awareness of the upcoming policy,  Gain insights and understanding, and address pain points of the practical challenges associated with OA for books,  Develop and share best practice.  Engagement with publishers  When it comes to negotiating OA agreements and thinking about UKRI’s OA monograph policy, our principal objectives are to promote bibliodiversity and encourage alternative business models to the Book Processing Charge (BPC). Our supporter membership model agreements, such as Diamond OA, and the new open access community framework extend OA publishing opportunities to authors regardless of their funding situation.  We are seeking open dialogue with publishers to encourage engagement with a range of OA models and options for funded and non-funded authors; currently we are actively working with a diverse set of publishers in order to agree Diamond OA pilots for books. [...]