Why did my journal submission get rejected?

It is possible that you may find that your submission has been rejected for listing in the open policy finder. Potential reasons for this include:

• The inclusion criteria are not met in full.
• Your open access policy is unclear, and you do not respond to requests asking for further explanation so that we can present it correctly.
• Your application form has not been completed properly or in full, and you do not respond to requests for the relevant details to help us with the listing.

Please check each of the above carefully and get back to us with further information if necessary.

Why did my publisher submission get rejected?

We no longer accept journal submissions from new publishers via our helpdesk/forms.

Our process for adding new publishers to open policy finder is as follows:

New publishers will be added to open policy finder via collaborations with national groups/organisations/consortia.

Representatives of national groups, organisations or consortia should email us at help@jisc.ac.uk (mentioning ‘open policy finder’ in the subject line) to register their interest in the first instance.

Examples of groups we have collaborated with recently include:

• Mir@bel network
• TSV, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
• GOAL project, Swiss Universities
• Canadian Association of Research Libraries

We also add new publishers based on targeted checks of lists, such as UKRI, REF and DIAMAS publication lists.

Why did my Funder submission get rejected?

It is possible that you may find that your submission has been rejected for listing in open policy finder. Potential reasons for this include:

• The inclusion criteria are not met in full
• Your open access policy is unclear – and you do not respond to requests asking for further explanation so that we can present it correctly
• Your application form has not been completed properly or in full - and you do not respond to requests for the relevant details to help us with the listing

Please check each of the above carefully and get back to us with further information if necessary.

Why did my Books policy submission get rejected?

It is possible that you may find that your submission has been rejected for listing in open policy finder. Potential reasons for this include:

• The inclusion criteria are not met in full
• Your open access policy is unclear – and you do not respond to requests asking for further explanation so that we can present it correctly
• Information about the policy has not been submitted in full - and you do not respond to requests for the relevant details to help us with the listing

Please check each of the above carefully and get back to us with further information if necessary.