Pathfinder Realignment | Open Access Good Practice

"Over recent months, the Pathfinder projects have been considering how they keep pace with the rapidly evolving OA landscape, in order to remain responsive and continue to offer the most value possible to their own institutions and the sector more widely. To support this, each project undertook a ‘Gateway Review’ to decide on the future direction of their work. Whilst the majority of projects felt that they were deriving deep and sustainable benefits from developing models of good practice in OA implementation, the Manchester opeNWorks (partnered by Liverpool, John Moores, Salford, Edge Hill) and UCL Pathways to OA (partnered by Nottingham and Newcastle) Pathfinders felt that they would offer more value to their own institutions and the wider sector through focusing on specific challenges and developing solutions that would allow them to keep pace with policy changes and urgency they present ..."