Helping 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 ArticleJisc Digifest 2016 – Open Access / Scholarly Communications Content
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...
View ArticleJisc UK ORCID technical and community support
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...
View ArticleInteractive presentation of Jisc Open Access services
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...
View ArticleJisc launches SHERPA REF – a new service to clarify journal compliance with REF
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...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about the Research Excellence Framework (REF) OA policy
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...
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Shaping the future of Jisc OA services – A sector-wide view
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:...
View ArticleJisc open access services at UKSG 2016
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...
View ArticleInternational advances in digital scholarship: Jisc and CNI Conference 2016,...
This conference will bring together leading experts from the UK, US and Europe to explore the current critical issues and innovations in digital scholarship, facilitating an international exchange on...
View ArticleOA Publisher Compliance Document
In this post, Carolyn Alderson gives us an update on an initiative we’ve been pursuing to describe how journal publishers can help with OA compliance. Last year Neil wrote about the steps publishers...
View ArticleUpdate on Jisc OA services and projects, May 2016
Every now and again I post a detailed summary of some of Jisc’s OA work on this blog. This is probably of most interest to those who follow these developments a little, and is not intended to replace...
View ArticleNew international controlled vocabulary for resource types
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has since early 2014 been developing a controlled vocabulary of scholarly resource types. This work has been coordinated by a special COAR Interest...
View ArticlePublications Router, Monitor Local and Monitor UK to move to full service status
Three Jisc development projects to help institutions meet their open access (OA) needs will move to full service status from August 2016. Publications Router, Monitor Local and Monitor UK will join...
View ArticlePublications Router – new publishers join, and next steps
Two major new publishers are enabling Jisc Publications Router to supply their content to institutional repositories. This helps institutions ensure they are compliant with funders’ open access (OA)...
View ArticleGroups looking at OA
I produced a slide showing what i understand (or, perhaps in some cases, misunderstand) to be the groups in the UK and Europe with a remit that covers OA. This is not comprehensive, I’m sure. Because i...
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PASTEUR4OA: Green Light for Open Access
PASTEUR4OA Jisc is a partner in the PASTEUR4OA project, which over the last two years has sought to promote the development and reinforcement of OA strategies and policies across Europe. PASTEUR4OA’s...
View ArticleWhat is a repository?
“What is a repository” was one of the first questions I faced on joining Jisc back in 2005 and, of course, it was not the first time it had been asked even then, and it has come up periodically since...
View ArticleJisc and international OA infrastructure
This post is a companion to a poster Balviar is presenting for Jisc at the Open Repositories conference next week in Dublin. You can download the poster [PDF] here: Jacobs_OR2016_POSTER The poster...
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7 key findings on article processing charges
As more researchers adopt gold open access, article processing charges (APCs) are becoming an increasingly important part of the cost of research. But what do we know about these charges, and how have...
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