Jisc has announced a new agreement with Copernicus Publications, a fully open access, not-for-profit publisher, whose portfolio of journals covers engineering, geosciences, humanities and life sciences.
The agreement helps institutions streamline administering open access publication, making it quicker and easier.
Copernicus uses simple, fair and reasonable article processing charges (APCs) and created one of the first public and fully transparent peer-review processes for academic journals.
Jisc members can now set up a prepayment account or choose to be invoiced for several papers on a single invoice.
The University of Exeter is already seeing the benefits of a membership agreement with Copernicus, having previously signed up independently. Its centralized billing options enable better financial planning and minimize time-consuming administration for the university library.
It found that a more streamlined and seamless publishing process encourages authors to submit their research to smaller, non-profit, fully open access publishers, supporting a healthy and diverse scholarly communications marketplace.
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