Washington — The American Psychological Association has signed an agreement with Jisc, acting as a national consortium for the U.K. academic community, offering participating Jisc-affiliated authors capped open access publishing in journals published by APA.
“As a nonprofit society publisher, APA is mission-driven to amplify the voice of psychology in ways that are transparent, equitable and include our entire discipline,” said APA Publisher for Journals and Books Rose Sokol, PhD. “This will provide a range of options to our authors and readers in terms of publishing models, open science practices, and access. Through this agreement, we look forward to supporting the U.K. academic community as it embraces open access publishing.”
Anna Vernon, Jisc’s head of Portfolio: Content Licensing, said the agreement is the result of careful review and deliberations with its members and APA. “We are thrilled to offer the sector an agreement that will benefit psychology-based researchers to achieve 100% open access publishing in 88 APA-published journals within the APA PsycArticles portfolio,” she said.
“The consortium capped agreement will help U.K. institutions to bolster both research access and open access publishing and will provide a simplified process to comply with funder mandates at no direct cost to the authors,” Sokol added.
Jisc’s vision is for the U.K. to be the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world. At its heart is the super-fast national research and education network, Janet, with built-in cybersecurity protection. Jisc also provides technology solutions for its members (colleges, universities and research centers) 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 U.K. higher and further education and research funding bodies and member institutions.