« The UK’s research institutions and the world-leading provider of science, technology and medical information products and services signed today a landmark agreement granting academics access to globally-published, high-quality research at costs lower than the industry average. In addition, Jisc Collections and
« In a recent blog post, Jisc Collections reported how the Springer Compact agreement was progressing in the UK. This blog post assesses the progress made in the first 9 months of the agreement between January and September 2016.
The Springer Compact agreement was launched…
« We are pleased to announce that the third Open Access Direct is now available on Jisc’s Open Access Website; it outlines much of the work we’ve been doing around OA, as well as points you to where you can learn more, or indeed engage with services…
« Wellcome this week has published a set of requirements for open access publications, which will come into force next spring. Jisc as well as, SCONUL, ARMA, UKCoRR and RLUK are supportive of these requirements. (…) »
« This post outlines some potential new issues arising for OA in the UK, and Jisc’s work in this area, arising from Brexit. It has been drafted rather quickly, and is intended as an aid for discussion, rather than anything definite or exhaustive. (…) »
« Nearly two-thirds of UK researchers support the abolition of journal subscription fees and a move to open access, according to a major study.
A survey of 6,679 academics commissioned by Jisc and Research Libraries UK found that 64 per cent of respondents…
« (…)The first half of this report looks at article processing charges and subscription payments from UK higher education institutions. It looks at national trends in the number of payments, overall expenditure, and average price. It then takes a closer look at APCs by institution, publisher, type…
« The poster gives three views of how Jisc is contributing to, and building on, international infrastructure for OA. Those three ways are:
1. Expressing open science policies
2. Services to reduce costs by exploiting existing interoperability and global identifier solutions
3. Event-based infrastructure based…
“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 then. With many OA (and some open data)…
