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Jisc OA pathfinders address OA challenges

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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Implementation of the HEFCE Open Access policy for the post- 2014 REF: a progress report to Jisc

Background Over the past month, Research Consulting has been undertaking a review of UK higher education institutions’ progress towards implementation of the open access policy for a post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). Based on the six institutional workshops, completed with the support of the Jisc Open Access Good Practice Pathfinder projects, as well as interviews […]

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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 […]

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Jisc Monitor – The Final Episode – From ideas to prototypes

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 […]

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Research Services and Systems Survey

As part of Jisc’s consultation on our Research at Risk Co-design challenge requirements for shared preservation, archiving and repository services were identified. Our colleagues in Jisc Digital Futures have therefore released a survey to dig deeper so we can better understand what is currently in place in universities and colleges to support research data management, […]

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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 […]