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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><img width="75" height="75" style="width:.7777in;height:.7777in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01D930D8.84FEF1B0"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Roboto Black";color:black"> 26th January 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoTitle"><b><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Roboto Black";color:#9A335E">Jisc announces partnership with open access publisher Copernicus<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arila">Access to new dashboard will help Jisc members streamline open access publication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Roboto">Jisc has announced a new agreement with </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Roboto">Copernicus Publications</span><span style="font-family:Roboto">, a fully open access, not-for-profit publisher, whose portfolio of
journals covers engineering, geosciences, humanities, and life sciences. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Roboto">The agreement helps institutions streamline administering open access publication, making it quicker and easier.
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<span style="font-family:Roboto">Copernicus uses simple, fair and reasonable article processing charges (APCs)</span><span style="font-family:Roboto">
</span><span style="font-family:Roboto">and created one of the first public and fully transparent peer-review processes for academic journals.
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<span style="font-family:Roboto">Jisc members can now set up a prepayment account or choose to be invoiced for several papers on a single invoice.
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<span style="font-family:Roboto">Anna Vernon, Jisc’s head of portfolio for content licensing, said:
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<span style="font-family:Roboto">“This new agreement with </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Roboto">Copernicus Publications
</span><span style="font-family:Roboto">will provide administrative efficiencies for our members. We’re pleased that, with new features that allow open access teams to choose which papers they want to pay for from centrally managed funds, we can finally add
Copernicus to our portfolio and further increase our partnerships with small open access publishers.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Roboto;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Dr Johannes Wagner, business development publications manager for Copernicus Publications, said:
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Roboto">“Copernicus Publications is delighted to sign this agreement with Jisc offering streamlined settlement schemes to all members in the UK, many of which we have been working with successfully for many years. Working
with Jisc greatly helps overcome the administrative challenges involved in signing agreements with individual institutions and thereby clearly benefits both researchers and the learned societies we serve.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Roboto">The University of Exeter is already seeing the benefits of a membership agreement with Copernicus, having previously signed up independently. Its centralised billing options enable better financial planning and minimise time-consuming
administration for the university library. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Roboto">It found that a more streamlined and seamless publishing process encourages authors to submit their research to smaller, non-profit, fully open access publishers,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Roboto">supporting a healthy and diverse scholarly communications marketplace.</span><span style="font-family:Roboto"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Roboto">Imogen Ward-Smith, open access publications officer at the University of Exeter said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Roboto">“To be able to offer a workflow with Copernicus Publications that is as simple for authors as the workflow of transitional agreements with big for-profit publishers
<a name="_Int_zlzumR4J">is</a> really important. They can choose to submit to whichever journal is most appropriate for their research without being put off by having to deal with invoicing.”
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<span style="font-family:Roboto">For more information about the new agreement with Copernicus and to sign up for it, visit the
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://subscriptionsmanager.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/2885"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Roboto">dedicated page on the Jisc subscription manager.</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Roboto">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">About Jisc</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black">Jisc’s vision is for the UK to be a world leader in technology for education and research. It owns and operates the super-fast national research and education network, Janet, with built-in cyber security protection.
Jisc also provides technology solutions for members (colleges, universities and research centres) and customers (public sector bodies), helps members save time and money by negotiating sector-wide deals and provides advice and practical assistance on digital
technology. Jisc is funded by the UK higher and further education and research funding bodies and member institutions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#2C3841">For more information, contact
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:phil.scoble@jisc.ac.uk"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Roboto">phil.scoble@jisc.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#2C3841">, or 07918 258573. Alternatively, use
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:media@jisc.ac.uk"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Roboto">media@jisc.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#2C3841"> or 07443 983571.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Roboto;color:#2C3841"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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