Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

09/05/2016

JISC- Learning analytics in higher education – A review of UK and international practice

« (…) This report documents the emerging uses of learning analytics in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. Through a series of eleven case studies it presents an overview of the evidence currently available of the impact that analytics are having on teaching and learning – and…

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08/02/2016

OAPEN-UK final report: A five-year study into open access monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences

« Le Jisc a mis en ligne les résultats de son étude « a five-year study into OA monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences » (OAPEN-UK)

…Examining the attitudes and perceptions of funders, researchers, publishers, learned societies, universities and libraries, our study reiterated the deep strength of…

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03/04/2015

Springer and Jisc Agree on Model to Reduce Total Cost Of Ownership of Open Access and Journal Subscriptions

« Springer Science+Business Media and Jisc have agreed on a new arrangement which takes into account UK scientists’ need to comply with multiple funders’ open access policies and to have access to the vast library of scientific articles published by Springer, while containing the combined…

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29/07/2014

Guidelines on Recommending Data Repositories as Partners in Publishing Research Data – Sarah Callaghan, Jonathan Tedds, John Kunze, Varsha Khodiyar, Rebecca Lawrence, Matthew Mayernik, Fiona Murphy, Timothy Roberts, Angus Whyte

« Abstract

This document summarises guidelines produced by the UK Jisc-funded PREPARDE data publication project on the key issues of repository accreditation. It aims to lay out the principles and the requirements for data repositories intent on providing a dataset as part of the research record and as part…

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07/04/2014

The Value and Impact of Data Sharing and Curation. A synthesis of three recent studies of UK research data centres – Neil Beagrie, John Houghton – Jisc (.pdf)

« Executive summary 

In the UK, substantial resources are being invested in the development and provision of services for the curation and long-term preservation of research data. It is a high priority area for a range of stakeholders, universities, researchers and research funders. There is strong interest in establishing…

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