Open Institutional Publishing Association: Introducing a New Community of Practice - Research

"We’re really excited to share information about a new association that will support open access publishing activities at UK universities. The Open Institutional Publishing Association will launch over the summer in 2023, and will be a supportive community of practice for OA publishing.... There has been a growing focus at UK universities on the discussion about OA publishing, what it means, and how universities can support this. In practice, this has meant an increase in open access publishing activity at the institutions themselves. Some of this is formalised, as seen in the increasing number of new university presses over the last 5 years or so. Some of it is less formal, such as providing in-house infrastructure for journals to use, or using repository tools to support publication. This range of publishing activity shows the different ways UK universities are looking to support the move to OA, all as important and relevant as each other...."