During Open Access week 2017, we announced that a new project would be coming out from OpenAIRE: “Coming early next year is OpenAIRE Advance, which continues the mission of OpenAIRE to support the Open Access/Open Data mandates in Europe. By sustaining the current […]
Author: Frank Manista
During Open Access week, we at Jisc thought it would be good to remind OA teams and academic researchers, not only about what Jisc is doing in its own right, but what OpenAIRE 2020 is doing. Jisc is the National Open Access Desk, or NOAD, for the UK, and we help support the projects which […]
Back in May 2015 in Utrecht and then again last December 2016 in Copenhagen, Knowledge Exchange ran a workshop focused on monitoring open access. The aims of the KE workshop in Utrecht were to explore sustainable open access approaches at policy, service and business levels for all research outputs and information, to the benefit of […]
Dear Colleagues, The May edition of the Jisc Open Access Digest is now available on the OA website. You can also access it as a PDF. You can also sign up on the website to receive the quarterly Digests automatically. In addition, the previous four Digests are archived in the Jisc repository with the following […]
This blog post is dedicated to the late David Kay, former lead architect for Jisc Monitor’s development stage, co-founder of Sero Consulting along with Liz and Ian Wallis: an ardent kayaker, a “Joe Russo’s Almost Dead” button designer and supporter (and thereby a Dead Head fanatic), and someone many of us called a friend: “Do […]
On the 14th of February, OpenAIRE held a workshop in Oslo, Norway entitled “Impact and Measurement of Open Access” at the University College of Applied Science. Since the OA movement started, much has been done to promote the ideals of sharing research, and the push continues to build the tools needed to allow researchers to […]
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Jisc Open Access Digest for OA Week
We are pleased to announce that the third Open Access Digest is now available on Jisc’s Open Access Website; it outlines much of the work we’ve been doing around OA, as well as points you to where you can learn more, or indeed engage with services such as the Publications Router and Jisc Monitor. You […]
On the 1st of November, the Jisc-partnered project, Open access infrastructure for research in Europe, or OpenAIRE, will be hosting its national workshop in the UK. Entitled, “OpenAIRE workshop for UK universities: Open access in Horizon 2020”, the focus of the day will include an overview of the initiative, itself, as well as allow UK […]
Background and Context: Over the past four months (31 March, 31 May, and 25 July), Jisc has scheduled and run 3 separate workshops covering the scope of the 6 publisher deals which we negotiated on behalf of HEI across the UK: Sage, Springer, IOP, Wiley, Taylor&Francis, and RSC. In terms of these deals, the agreements […]
Dear Colleagues, The second issue of the Jisc open access digest is available on the Jisc open access webpage: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/content/open-access It is also available at the following PDF link: http://emails.jisc.ac.uk/files/amf_jisc/project_163/jisc-open-access-digest-issue-2.pdf and in the Jisc repository: http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6478/1/jisc-open-access-digest-issue-2.pdf You can also sign up to receive it automatically: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/forms/sign-up-for-our-open-access-digest If you have any questions, please get in touch: OAsupport@jisc.ac.uk Thanks! […]