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Developing skills for scholarly communication
By Helen Blanchett, Jisc’s scholarly communications subject specialist, with contributions from Dr Danny Kingsley, Deputy Director Cambridge University Library – Scholarly Communication & Research...
View ArticleOpen research reports released – a response from Jisc
Yesterday the government released advice from Professor Adam Tickell on moving toward greater open access (OA) to research publications, and the report of the Open Research Data Taskforce (ORDTF) was...
View ArticleCollaboration key for advancing open research: repository progress for Jisc...
Jisc and the British Library share an interest in the persistence and open access of the UK research record, and work together towards this aim. As the UK national library, the British Library is an...
View ArticleThe General Assembly for OpenAIRE Advance and the Legal Entity
Setting the Stage: The General Assembly for OpenAIRE Advance took place in Debrecen, Hungary on the 15-17 January 2019; the previous GA, which took place in Athens in January 2018, was the kick off for...
View ArticleMDPI supplies full-text articles to Publications Router
The open access publisher MDPI is now supplying full-text articles to Jisc’s Publications Router, enabling them to be automatically deposited into institutions’ repositories. This streamlines...
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Practice research is for life, not just REF – event report
A post by Helen Blanchett with presentation summaries by Luigi Galimberti (formerly of the Tate Museum and now at University of the Arts London). Thanks also to Professor Maria Delgado (Royal Central...
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March open access update now available
Welcome to the March 2019 issue Download the update as a PDF Open access is now a pervasive influence across many different areas of Jisc activity. We are pleased to report progress on a number of...
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Developing a skilled workforce to support scholarly communication – event...
Building on recent work in the sector in the area of skills for those working in scholarly communication and open access roles, we ran a workshop in York in February “Developing a skilled workforce:...
View ArticleFuture Science Group supplies full-text articles to Publications Router
Future Science Group now supplies full-text articles to Jisc’s Publications Router service for onward distribution to institutional repositories. This includes content from journals published under its...
View ArticlePerspectives on the open access discovery landscape
Posted on behalf of Andrea Chiarelli (Consultant) and Rob Johnson (Director) of Research Consulting. Open access discovery tools enable users to find scholarly articles that are available in open...
View ArticleOpen Access Requirements for Horizon 2020-Funded Projects
UK institutions and organisations are particularly well represented in Horizon 2020, the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years...
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Are preprints paving the way to science in real time?
Written for Knowledge Exchange by Andrea Chiarelli (Research Consulting) Arxiv, the most widely known preprint server, has received over 1.5 million preprints since its inception in 1991. BioRxiv, a...
View ArticleElsevier metadata feed via Publications Router is now live
Jisc’s Publications Router is now distributing Elsevier metadata to participating institutions, notifying them of their researchers’ articles published by the world’s largest publisher of scholarly...
View ArticleCritical issues in open access and scholarly communications – event report
This blog post was written by Dr Graham Stone, Jisc Collections senior research manager. This event, which took place at Goldsmiths College, University of London, aimed to widen the dialogue on open...
View ArticleJisc and Crossref issue guidance to publishers on better licensing metadata
Wouldn’t it be great if you could look up the green OA status of any journal article? What if you could easily find out, for any article, which version you can expose on an open repository, exactly...
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June 2019 open access update now available
Welcome to the June 2019 issue Download the Jisc June OA update as a PDF The release of further guidance from cOAlition S on Plan S implementation has answered many concerns from sector groups and has...
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Open Repositories 2019 in Hamburg – themes and perspectives
Monica Duke, ORCID technical and community support, picks out emerging themes from last month’s conference and Adam Field, Sherpa services analyst developer, gives his personal perspective. All...
View ArticleCritical issues in open access and scholarly communications – draft report
This blog post was written by Dr Graham Stone, Jisc Collections senior research manager. In June, we published a blog post about the Critical issues in open access and scholarly communications one-day...
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Embedding IRUS-UK statistics into IR web pages – the IRUS-UK widget
The IRUS team have developed a widget in response to requests from IR (institutional repository) managers who wanted to surface usage statistics more visibly in their IR and encourage open access....
View ArticleHorizon 2020 and UK Research and Innovation Requirements for H2020 Projects
Twice a year, Jisc contacts Horizon2020-funded projects in the UK on behalf of OpenAIRE (www.openaire.eu) which supports the EC’s Open Access policies. Jisc is the National Open Access Desk for...
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