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Jisc Monitor User Group Workshop
This blog post is dedicated to the late David Kay, former lead architect for Jisc Monitor’s development stage, co-founder of Sero Consulting along with Liz and Ian Wallis: an ardent kayaker, a “Joe...
View ArticleThe May 2017 edition of the OA Digest is now available
Dear Colleagues, The May edition of the Jisc Open Access Digest is now available on the OA website. You can also access it as a PDF. You can also sign up on the website to receive the quarterly...
View ArticleAnnouncing the release of the report “Knowledge Exchange consensus on...
Back in May 2015 in Utrecht and then again last December 2016 in Copenhagen, Knowledge Exchange ran a workshop focused on monitoring open access. The aims of the KE workshop in Utrecht were to explore...
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Evaluating the options for an Open Access Dashboard
CC0 Public Domain As we reported last month, work is underway to look at the viability of developing an Open Access Dashboard which would bring together information on open access (OA) outputs from a...
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Findings from institutional survey on the Springer Compact agreement
Back in March 2017 Jisc Collections distributed the Year 1 Springer Compact agreement report to 90 participating UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Simultaneously, Jisc Collections invited Higher...
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Understanding how to deliver Open Access content in library ‘discovery to...
Work is continuing apace on the Jisc OA Open Access Button project which is assessing the feasibility of a service in the discovery/ interlibrary loan (ILL) workflow utilising Open Access Button...
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Plan S will bring many changes, but the death of the repository should not be...
On the eve of Open Access Week, Bill Hubbard argues that we must not forget university repositories as the bedrock of open research. This article was originally published in Times Higher Education, 21...
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Open access briefing paper: The potential of global identifiers to support...
This paper was written by Chris Brown, Katie Shamash, Helen Blanchett and Balviar Notay. Is was published as part of Open Access Week 2018 and can also be downloaded as a PDF document. Introduction...
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Open access briefing: OA monographs in the UK
This paper was written by Graham Stone and Caren Milloy and published as part of Open Access Week 2018. It can also be downloaded as a PDF document. Introduction This paper outlines the current UK...
View ArticleOA monographs discovery in the library supply chain: draft report and...
This post was written by Graham Stone, Senior Research Manager, Jisc Collections. Introduction Key studies, such as the OAPEN-NL project, have shown that open access has a positive impact on the usage...
View ArticleFrontiers supplies full-text articles to Publications Router
Frontiers is the latest open access publisher to distribute content automatically to institutional repositories via Jisc’s Publications Router service. This enables institutions to capture, store,...
View ArticleWorking together to implement Plan S
Plan S outlines the aspirations of an international group of research funders, including UKRI, to reach 100% open access quickly and cost-effectively. This morning we have got more draft detail on how...
View ArticleElsevier to participate in Publications Router
Elsevier has agreed to enable Jisc’s Publications Router service to notify UK institutions of articles authored by their researchers. Under an agreement signed by Elsevier and Jisc, Router will capture...
View ArticleSupporting a diverse scholarly publishing ecosystem: introducing our new...
This post was written by Caren Milloy, Deputy director – Jisc Collections Here at Jisc we are keen to encourage a more diverse and transparent open access publishing environment. Our new dynamic...
View ArticleFunders sign up to ORCID Open Letter
As the persistent identifiers landscape evolves, various initiatives are in progress to improve efficiency and effectiveness in research processes. For example, the FREYA project aims to “extend the...
View ArticleOpportunity to develop a research themed Analytics Lab
Analytics Labs is an exciting research environment within which we co-design new data derived products and services with our members and other customers. Labs focus on the burning issues facing the...
View ArticlePublic engagement and open science
Yesterday I was on a panel at the ‘Science in Public’ conference in Cardiff, asking the question, what is the contribution that open science can or should make to public engagement in science. The...
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December open access update – and season’s greetings!
Welcome to the December issue Download the digest as a PDF The recent development from cOAlition S, giving information on issues of implementation, shows that the release of the Plan S principles...
View ArticleHelp and guidance for universities looking to publish their own e-textbooks
This blog post was written by Graham Stone, Jisc Collections Senior Research Manager, and Mafalda Marques, Jisc Collections Research Analyst. As a final output of the Institution as e-textbook...
View ArticleJisc, research analytics and metrics
Jisc has provided analytic services related to research for some time, from the JUSP and IRUS services that give insight about the use of journals and articles, to dashboards helping universities...
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