Jisc is pleased to announce the availability of the new REF Compliance Checker plugin for EPrints. The purpose of the REF Compliance Checker is to smooth the process by which EPrints-using institutions can establish whether an article or conference proceeding deposited by a member of their organisation is eligible for the post-2014 REF. To do […]
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 […]
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ORCID and Safe harbour
Many of you will have noted the recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which decided that the Safe Harbour agreement, which was concerned with the transmission of personal data to the US, was invalid. Are there any implications of this for UK organisations joining ORCID through the Jisc national […]
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A Schema for Open Access policies
There are now many Open Access (OA) policies, from universities, research institutions and funders listed in SHERPA/JULIET, ROARMAP and MELIBEA. Such policies are often expressed in different ways, making the OA policy landscape complex for all the stakeholders involved in the process of sharing and publishing research outputs. This is particularly the case for authors […]
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SHERPA Services join Jisc
Bill Hubbard writes: Staff at the Centre for Research Communications are delighted to say that we have now completed our transfer from the University of Nottingham to Jisc, to improve the long-term stability, sustainability and growth of the CRC and SHERPA Services, RoMEO, JULIET, OpenDOAR and FACT. Responsibility for resourcing and management now passes to […]
A number of institutions in the UK used their EPrints repositories to orchestrate their REF 2014 returns. The REF plugin is a highly developed application encapsulating necessarily complex workflows and interactions and provides the basis for institutions to use EPrints for the next REF. Since the last REF we have seen the launch of the […]
After several years of concerted effort to implement Open Access in the UK following the Finch report in 2012 and in consultation with a range of other sector bodies, we have learned, and continue to learn, a great deal about what works well, and what works less well. On the 19th of October 2015, from 12:00-13:00, […]
As researchers and their institutions gear up for the latest set of OA policy developments, including July’s OA policy review by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the release of the Higher Education and Funding Council for England (HEFCE)’s updated requirements for next year’s Research Excellence Framework (REF), now seems like a good time to offer a […]