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Image source: MikeAMorrison - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 We have had quite a few a queries from University of Leicester authors during the past few months around 'read and publish deals', transformative publishing deals, new author dashboards from publishers with which we have signed a 'Transformative agreement' (TA), and what this all means for individual authors and their publishing choice.  Jisc Collections: working with publishers to support OA Jisc Collections is supporting Higher Education (HE) with the transition to open access (OA) through the negotiation of transitional (transformative) OA agreements which allow 100% of UK output to be published OA in accordance with UK funder policies.  What is a 'transformative journal'? PlanS  implementation comes into effect in January 2021 and they have produced a really useful collection of FAQs on this and they define a transformative journal as: "A subscription/hybrid journal that is actively committed to tr...

 EThOs - e-theses online service A free database provided by the British Library which searches over 500,000 UK Doctoral Theses, including those from the University of Leicester. Conduct your search. Search results with a green open padlock symbol mean that the full text of the thesis is available for free download. Click on the result you are interested in. You should then see more details about the thesis, including an abstract. You might be given more than one option for downloading the full text PDF of the thesis - either from EThOS or from the Institution that awarded the PhD. In order to download from EThOS you need to create a free EThOS account. Not all theses included in EThOS are available as full text PDFs. Some will have restricted access and some may not have been digitised. Those with restricted access will have a brown dotted padlock symbol next to them and those that have not been digitised will have no padlock symbol. Click on a result for more details. You will cu...