We’re delighted to announce the availability of SHERPA REF, a ‘beta’ web service – funded and endorsed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) – that allows authors and institutions to quickly, accurately and easily check whether a journal in which they wish to publish complies with the open access (OA) policy for … Read more

Today we’ve launched a new interactive tool which shows how Jisc’s services can support your institution in implementing OA. The tool presents our services both by how they support the research publication lifecycle and by theme namely: policy compliance, discovery, usage and impact, cost management and metadata and interoperability. Developed in consultation with members of … Read more

Jisc is pleased to announce that the UK ORCID Technical & Community Support Coordination work has commenced.  This was a function that was promised as part of the Jisc UK ORCID consortium membership.  It has taken us a little longer than expected to get this resource in place, but we are very pleased that we … Read more

Last week our annual Digital festival – now in its third year – took place over 2 days in Birmingham with over 1,000 delegates attending the event either in person or participating online. If you were one of those I hope you enjoyed it. Below is a link to the respective Open Access / scholarly … Read more