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Open policy finder (Jisc)

'Open Access for Books' is the long awaiteda new addition to Jisc’s well established Sherpa toolsuite of resources for journals. Now known as open policy finder, the Open Access for Books feature offers an overview of publishers' book policies to help authors and research organisations make informed and confident decisions in open access publishing and meeting funders' guidelines.

Developed to support the UKRI OA policy for longform,longform, it is still relatively new (released in beta early 2024) and a limited number of publisher data sets included. It has since moved to live release and is under active development with the number of publisher policies increasing.

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