Update on RIOXX plug-in and REF plug-in
The RIOXX Application Profile, which supports the consistent tracking of open-access research publications across scholarly systems, defines the metadata institutional repositories need to record to...
View ArticleWhat is Jisc doing in the area of open access (OA) monographs?
Below is a quick summary of our activity in the area of OA monographs. OAPEN-UK is funded by the AHRC and Jisc. It commenced in 2010 and will complete with the release of the final report in October /...
View ArticleImplementing Open Access: 10 Practical Steps
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...
View ArticleSupporting Institutions with Open Access Implementation
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...
View ArticleThe REF Compliance Checker plugin for EPrints: timelines for implementation.
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...
View ArticleSHERPA 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...
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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,...
View ArticleORCID 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...
View ArticleEnd of year update on Jisc OA work related to journal articles
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...
View ArticleResearch metrics and indicators – some Jisc work
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...
View ArticleOpen Access books: Jisc work in the area
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...
View ArticleREF compliance checker for EPrints ready to use
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...
View ArticleReport on open access monograph publishing
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...
View ArticleHelping with REF OA compliance – update on Jisc services
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...
View ArticleInaugural Edition of the Open Access Digest
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...
View ArticleEnd of year update on Jisc OA work related to journal articles
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...
View ArticleResearch metrics and indicators – some Jisc work
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...
View ArticleOpen Access books: Jisc work in the area
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...
View ArticleREF compliance checker for EPrints ready to use
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...
View ArticleReport on open access monograph publishing
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...
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