Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

« The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is pleased to announce a two-year transformational open access (OA) pilot agreement between Jisc and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The “Publish-and-Read” agreement will allow corresponding authors at participating institutions in the United Kingdom to publish OA articles in PNAS…

« This toolkit will support and give guidance to new university presses and library-led publishing ventures as well as those with a hybrid model, who publish open access and non-open access material. It is free-to-access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, independent and interdisciplinary with articles written in…

« This poster will present the Jisc Open Research team’s roadmap for the development and enhancement of Sherpa Romeo over the coming years, and invite feedback, comments and questions from the user community. We will be looking at the ways we plan to enhance the service, infrastructure and usability of Romeo,…

« The Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) is a key component of cOAlition S’s Plan S – it is based on a simple principle that the peer-reviewed Author Accepted manuscript (AAM) is the intellectual creation of the authors and belongs to them.
On submission of an article authors apply a prior…

« Join us online in July for the Jisc and CNI leaders conference where you can hear from thought leaders, explore current issues and innovations in digital scholarship. Plus online networking time will allow you to take advantage of the opportunity for a rich international exchange on leading practice…

« What is the Knowledge Exchange?
The Knowledge Exchange brings together six organisations that are representative of research activity in their countries. Their aim is to examine common problems in supporting research and developing infrastructure and services to enable the use of digital technologies, to share solutions, to seek perspectives…

« Jisc is today launching a toolkit that will help new university presses to find sustainable ways to publish open access. (…) »

« (…) We are launching a survey of publishing organisations throughout Europe to identify and better understand existing and potential business models to support the open access publication of research monographs.
This is where we need the open access book community to step in: we invite you all to share…

« Jisc is launching a new multi-content repository for storing research data and articles that will make it easier for university staff to manage the administration around open access publishing. (…) »

« UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Wellcome and Jisc are among the first organisations supporting the establishment of a new body called Open Access Switchboard.
The switchboard will help the research community transition to full and immediate open access…