Attendees at this year’s UKSG conference heard details about Jisc’s collection of open access (OA) services, including an update on the Publications Router. When moving to OA, the main challenges universities and researchers face are achieving compliance, managing costs, and realising the benefits of OA. An overview of how Jisc’s OA services can help institutions […]
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 […]
Today marks the start of another chapter on the UK’s road to open access (OA) as the UK education funding councils’ post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) OA policy comes into effect. It’s been a long time coming. The REF OA policy was announced in 2014, and subsequently revised in 2015, following further extensive consultation with […]
We’re delighted to announce the availability of SHERPA REF, a ‘beta’ web service – funded and endorsed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) – that allows authors and institutions to quickly, accurately and easily check whether a journal in which they wish to publish complies with the open access (OA) policy for […]
Today we’ve launched a new interactive tool which shows how Jisc’s services can support your institution in implementing OA. The tool presents our services both by how they support the research publication lifecycle and by theme namely: policy compliance, discovery, usage and impact, cost management and metadata and interoperability. Developed in consultation with members of […]
Jisc is pleased to announce that the UK ORCID Technical & Community Support Coordination work has commenced. This was a function that was promised as part of the Jisc UK ORCID consortium membership. It has taken us a little longer than expected to get this resource in place, but we are very pleased that we […]
Last week our annual Digital festival – now in its third year – took place over 2 days in Birmingham with over 1,000 delegates attending the event either in person or participating online. If you were one of those I hope you enjoyed it. Below is a link to the respective Open Access / scholarly […]
Dear Colleagues, Please find the links below to the first edition of the Open Access Digest, which is a new mode of disseminating and promoting the important work Jisc is doing in and around OA. The Digest can be found on the OA section of the Jisc website: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/content/open-access and in the Jisc repository: http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6291/1/OA_digest_issue1_feb2016_final.pdf To […]
We are getting closer to April and the implementation of the HEFCE open access policy for REF outputs. Jisc has been working with HEFCE, publishers and the community to develop services which will help the sector in complying with this policy to maximise both the outputs which are eligible for REF and, of course, the […]
We recently blogged on Jisc’s work in the area of open access books. One of the projects we discussed was OAPEN-UK, a five year study into open access monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences. This project has now completed and the final report, written by Ellen Collins and Caren Milloy, is now available. […]