Author: Balviar Notay

Cross-sector discussions to consider stakeholders’ needs The Sherpa/FACT advisory group has membership from major research funders (HEFCE, Research Councils, Wellcome Trust), from universities through SCONUL and the UK Council of Research Repositories, from publishers through the Publishers Association, the Sherpa team and Jisc. One of the major topics of conversation in the group for the […]

The RIOXX Application Profile was released in its final form on 23rd January 2015.   This is an important development for the UK’s higher education and research institutions since it describes the metadata required to demonstrate institutions’ compliance with RCUK’s open access policy.  Certain metadata elements will also contribute to demonstrating compliance with HEFCE’s recently announced […]

Institutions up and down the UK are thinking hard about how they can capture their academics’ research outputs onto their repositories at the time of acceptance. They need to do this in order to comply with the policy on OA and the REF. How can Jisc help? In this post Steve Byford looks at one […]