As we head toward the summer, I thought it would be useful to provide a further update on the range of projects and services that help universities implement OA for research papers. The update is in this Word document. This update is also being circulated to those attending a workshop on OA in the REF […]
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Two of Jisc’s OA pathfinder projects (those led by UCL and Manchester) have agreed that, to reflect specific challenges currently facing universities in implementing OA, they will over the next year take on additional work in the following areas: 1. Approaches to deposit (Manchester): reviewing pilots of different approaches to depositing items into repositories in […]
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Jisc projects and services update
In March on this blog I outlined where Jisc was, and what the next steps were, with respect to a range of our activities. To avoid repeating a lot of the background information about these activities, I’d like to refer readers to that post, though I’ll repeat here for reference the slide showing the main […]
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Collection and sharing of APC data
Stuart Lawson here provides an update on Jisc’s plans to collect and share APC data from universities. For the last two years Jisc Collections has been working with higher education institutions to collect and openly release article-level data on their APC expenditure. This is valuable information which, among other things, provides evidence that helps Jisc […]
Back Story Frank Manista provides a summary update of the Jisc Monitor project. Completing at the end of May 2015, with inputs from over 60 UK institutions, the Jisc Monitor project is tasked with developments to help indicate how institutions might go about supporting and tracking Open Access publication processes, especially with reference to compliance […]
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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]