Introduction This post outlines some potential new issues arising for OA in the UK, and Jisc’s work in this area, arising from Brexit. It has been drafted rather quickly, and is intended as an aid for discussion, rather than anything definite or exhaustive. Background OA has been a top-down and a bottom-up change for over […]
Author: Neil Jacobs
JISC Programme Director, Digital Infrastructure (Information Environment)
This post is a companion to a poster Balviar is presenting for Jisc at the Open Repositories conference next week in Dublin. You can download the poster [PDF] here: Jacobs_OR2016_POSTER The poster gives three views of how Jisc is contributing to, and building on, international infrastructure for OA. Those three ways are: 1. Expressing open […]
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What is a repository?
“What is a repository” was one of the first questions I faced on joining Jisc back in 2005 and, of course, it was not the first time it had been asked even then, and it has come up periodically since then. With many OA (and some open data) policies explicitly mentioning “repositories”, it might be […]
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Groups looking at OA
I produced a slide showing what i understand (or, perhaps in some cases, misunderstand) to be the groups in the UK and Europe with a remit that covers OA. This is not comprehensive, I’m sure. Because i created it for Jisc purposes, it has a Jisc flavour to it. However, it might be useful for […]
Every now and again I post a detailed summary of some of Jisc’s OA work on this blog. This is probably of most interest to those who follow these developments a little, and is not intended to replace our new quarterly summary digest, which will be out soon. Anyway, here is May’s detailed update: Jisc […]
In this post, Carolyn Alderson gives us an update on an initiative we’ve been pursuing to describe how journal publishers can help with OA compliance. Last year Neil wrote about the steps publishers might take to help their customers in the management of Open Access, in order to meet funder requirements and also to assist […]
In this post, Rob Johnson of Research Consulting reports on the results of recent research to inform the development of Jisc’s OA services. We think the findings will be of wider interest. Rob writes: Back in February we were asked by Jisc to help inform the development of Jisc’s future open access (OA) services, including […]
Most of the posts on this blog concern open access to journal articles. In this post, jointly authored by Neil Jacobs, Caren Milloy, Neil Grindley, Chris Keene and Liam Earney, we take a look at Jisc’s current work in the area of OA books. Books are integral to teaching and research. Academics feel strongly about […]
Introduction This post outlines some of the most important Jisc activities in the area of research metrics and indicators and, in particular, the data infrastructure underpinning them. The data underpinning metrics can be divided into that relating to objects, which need identifiers, and that relating to activity. Identifiers Identifiers for the key entities in research […]
As a busy year draws to an end, i thought it would be a good time to release another update on where we are with the various services and projects that Jisc is working on to help HEIs implement OA for journal articles. (Update on our work in books due shortly). Here it is: Jisc […]