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ORCID consultation

Jisc would like to consult you about your institution’s interest in joining a UK ORCID consortium membership agreement. ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary, open, not-for-profit organisation. Its core function is to provide a registry of unique, persistent, and resolvable person identifiers together with web services to enable interoperability through integration of identifiers into your research […]

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Offsetting agreements for open access publishing

More journal publishers are keen to introduce offsetting systems to reduce the total cost of publishing for institutions, so we have just published new guidelines, ‘Principles for Offset Agreements’. It sets out the five principles which UK HEIs expect will drive the design of effective offset systems, along with a clear rationale for each, explaining […]

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Assessing progress towards implementation of the HEFCE OA policy for the post-2014 REF

With the date at which HEFCE’s policy on open access in the next REF comes into force just under a year away (1st April 2016), now seems like a good time to ‘temperature test’ how much progress has been made across the sector to address this and to consider if there may be opportunities to […]

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How publishers might help universities implement OA

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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News from the Jisc Monitor project

Jisc Monitor is a one-year project starting in May 2014, exploring how Jisc managed shared services might support institutions in meeting and reporting on funder OA policies. The core of the project is helping institutions have the information they need, and so much of the work is on data sources, data models and systems that […]

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Jan 2015 update on Jisc’s OA work wrt journal articles

Happy new year to all, if it’s not already too late to say that. New year already seems a long time ago. I’ve been asked to provide an update of Jisc’s OA work for various forthcoming meetings and thought this might be a generally useful thing to make available, since it indicates both what we’re […]

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PASTEUR4OA Meeting of National Experts

Working Together to Promote Open Access Policy Alignment in Europe Earlier in December Jisc hosted the PASTEUR4OA project meeting of national experts which brought together representatives from more than 33 European countries to discuss a joint agenda that will promote the alignment of OA policies in EU Member States and neighbouring countries. Three issues were […]

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Jisc and OpenAIRE2020

We’re delighted to welcome the announcement that OpenAIRE2020 will start in January next year, and to say that Jisc is a significant partner in this project. OpenAIRE provides an important infrastructure for open research at a European level, complementing many of the services that Jisc offers to UK institutions, and adding value to those services. […]