JISC and Publishers Work Together to Open Up Access to Journals

Gary D. Price, MLIS writes
JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee, a committee of the further and higher education funding bodies) has a new £150,000 programme
that will allow four key publishers to move towards or continue open access delivery for some of their journals. The journals concerned are among the most respected scholarly journals in their subject areas. The publishers awarded funds are: the Public Library of Science (PLoS, for PLoS Biology), Institute of Physics Publishing (New Journal of Physics), the Journal of Experimental Botany at Lancaster University, and the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr).”