Launching our UKRI collection

Silke Davison

Wed 21 May 2025

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On 6 December 2024, we announced that we entered a partnership collaboration with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to provide a set of dedicated services for its funded open access (OA) books. 

Under the terms of this partnership collaboration, it was agreed that all OA books supported by UKRI are made available as a funded collection in the OAPEN Library from January 2025, alongside our other funded collections (including, DFG, FWF, NWO, SNSF, Wellcome, SCOAP3, Knowledge Unlatched, and the ERC). 

In the six months that have passed since this announcement, we’re pleased to report that 46 books and 5 chapters have already been added to the UKRI collection out of the 90 OA books they have supported so far. We are regularly adding to the collection as more titles are published and supported.

We also launched a dedicated webpage showcasing the UKRI collection. The webpage provides more information for publishers, researchers, and libraries, and on the UKRI open access policy. 

Other services included in the partnership collaboration are archiving of funded OA books in PORTICO, distribution to libraries globally through our metadata feeds and aggregators, reporting on COUNTER usage in the OAPEN library through a personalised dashboard, and additional discoverability through seamless integration of funded OA books in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) through the DOAB Trusted Platform Network. 

We look forward to continuing this partnership collaboration with UKRI and working together to achieve an open future for academic monographs. 

Browse the UKRI collection in the OAPEN Library. 

About UKRI

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the largest public funder of research in the UK. UKRI brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England, which is responsible for supporting research and knowledge exchange at higher education institutions in England, and the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. UKRI supports research across all disciplines through a large variety of grants, programmes, and investments.