Astrid Wissenburg, Deputy Chair of RCUK Impact Group and RCUK representative on the Finch Group, and Mark Thorley, Chair of the RCUK Research Outputs Network, explain why open access is so high up the agenda for Research Councils.
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British National Bibliography (BNB) published as Linked Data by the British Library, linked to external sources including VIAF, LCSH, Lexvo, GeoNames, MARC country, and language, Dewey.info, RDF Book Mashup. Published to this data model for books and this data model for serials.
Current release of approximately 2.8 million descriptions (93,583,853 triples) of books (including monographs published over time) and serials published in the UK over the last 60 years. Future releases will extend coverage to include multipart works, integrating resources, kits and forthcoming publications. The objective is to create a regularly updated dataset covering UK publications since 1950.
The British National Bibliography (BNB) records the publishing activity of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and has been doing so since the 1950s. This has traditionally included printed works and has recently been extended to electronic publications. The dataset includes metadata about published books, already published and forthcoming, and serials i.e. journals, periodicals, magazines, newspapers, etc.
The Linked Open BNB is a subset of the full British National Bibliography. It currently includes published books and serial publications, representing approximately 2.8 million records.
Sherpa-JULIET provides information on research funding agencies’ policies on open access from around the world. These policies apply to deposit of published articles in open access repositories, publishing in open access journals and the archiving of research data.
Sherpa-FACT is a service that provides information and guidance to researchers on whether a journal in which they wish to publish complies with Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust Open Access policies, and offers advice on available options.
Co-Action Publishing offers a range of tailored Open Access solutions for individual authors, editorial teams, scholarly societies, and academic and professional bodies engaged in the publication of scholarly, peer reviewed journals and books