It is the responsibility of authors (sometimes as grant holders), and their institutions, to meet the OA requirements of funders. However it is clear from, among other things, the review of the RCUK OA policy implementation (released today), and Jisc initiatives such as Sherpa services, Jisc Monitor and Jisc Publications Router, that there are things […]
Month: March 2015
Jisc Publications Router update
In my last post, covering most of the Jisc services and projects supporting OA, i said that we’d post an update on the Jisc Publications Router shortly, and this is it. The Jisc Publications Router is a project at EDINA to develop a viable prototype service to pass metadata and/or full text papers from journals […]
Jisc plans for OA services
Many readers of this blog will know that Jisc offers, or is developing, services to help universities implement open access. In this post I’d like to explain where we are on several of these, and to outline what the next few months hold. I know that this kind of information can be useful for university […]
The RIOXX Guidelines and Application Profile provide a mechanism to help institutional repositories comply with the RCUK policy on open access. Some of the required metadata is also relevant to the REF. RIOXX was developed in close cooperation with RCUK and its adoption is strongly encouraged. Jisc has funded the development of an EPrints plugin […]