JISC OA PROJECTS AND SERVICES
WHEN
SERVICES FOR RESEARCHERS
SERVICES FOR LIBRARIANS AND RESEARCH
MANAGERS
SERVICES AND PROJECTS
On submitting an article to a
journal
Information on journal OA policies,
and how they enable you to comply
with your funder policy
Information on journal OA policies, and how
they enable your researchers to comply with
their funder policy
Sherpa RoMEO, Juliet, FACT
On acceptance of the article by
the journal
Automatic notification to (and
perhaps deposit of the article into)
your institutional repository
Automatic notification to (and perhaps deposit
of the article into) your institutional repository
Publications Router
Offset arrangements to save costs for
institutions
Jisc Collections
Raising the visibility, reach and
impact of the article on the internet
Rendering the article effectively in library
discovery services
CORE
Confirmation that the article has
been published on appropriate OA
terms
Confirmation that the article has been
published on appropriate OA terms
On payment of the APC
On publication of the article
On monitoring / reporting
compliance with funder
policies
On someone downloading the
article
On providing institutional OA
implementation support
Collation of data allowing librarians and
research managers to monitor publication
output, expenditure and compliance
Usage reports for the authors
Usage reports for articles authored from the
institution
Developing and sharing new and effective ways
to meet funders’ OA policies
Technical support for institutional repositories
adopting Jisc and other shared
services/standards
AAMs
Total Cost of Ownership
Jisc APC
Jisc Monitor
Nesli2 Hybrid Journal negotiations
Jisc Monitor
Jisc Monitor
RIOXX
CASRAI
Jisc Orcid pilot
IRUS-UK
OA Good Practice inc Pathfinder
projects
Repository Technical Support
Package
JISC OA PROJECTS AND SERVICES
JISC’S WORK IN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS
OA Infrastructure
JISC OA PROJECTS AND SERVICES
To support the table above, here is a list of short descriptions of Jisc’s work in scholarly communications, including the work we’re doing to help UK
universities implement Open Access. Jisc is in the process of improving the main Jisc webpages to make it easier to find out more about this.
Journals
Total cost of ownership: collection and analysis of data about the costs and value of journals for institutions under different financial models.
https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Overview/
Nesli2 hybrid journal negotiations: On behalf of its customers, Jisc negotiating with publishers for agreements combining subscription and APC payments
for hybrid journals. https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/nesli2/
OA-related Jisc Collections negotiations: On behalf of its customers, Jisc negotiating with publishers for agreements relating to OA and associated
payments, schemes, licences, etc. Eg, Peer-J https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/Overview/Index/1758
NHS Pilot: extension to NHS staff in England, Scotland and Wales of licences for a range of publishers’ content, to assess its impact. https://www.jisccollections.ac.uk/nesli2/Extending-Access--2014-NHS-Pilot/NHS-Pilot-Title-information/
SME Pilot: extension to a sample of SMEs of licences for a range of publishers’ content, to assess its impact.
Books
OAPEN-UK: longitudinal pilot and investigation into the issues arising from, and impact of, OA publication of monographs. http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/
OAPEN deposit service: pilot Jisc support for an international platform wherein OA monographs from many sources are deposited, curated and made
openly available
Knowledge Unlatched pilot: Jisc management of HEFCE contribution to an innovative controlled crowdfund model for monograph publishing.
http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/Overview/Index/1704
Services
Jisc Monitor: Investigation and prototyping to test the value and feasibility of services to help universities show compliance with funder OA mandates and
monitor APC payments. https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Overview/
IRUS-UK: Collects raw download data from UK repositories and processes into COUNTER-compliant, comparable, authoritative, standards-based usage
statistics. http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/
Publications Router (formally Repository Junction Broker): Automates direct delivery of scholarly works (Green/Gold OA and/or pre-embargoed records)
from publisher and subject repository to the appropriate individual repositories. http://broker.edina.ac.uk/
Sherpa RoMEO: Analysis of publisher policies for authors' rights when using Open Access repositories. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Sherpa Juliet: Registry of Open Access policies from research funders worldwide. www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/
JISC OA PROJECTS AND SERVICES
Sherpa FACT: Advice to UK authors on compliance with funder's policies in their journal of choice. www.sherpa.ac.uk/fact/
OpenDOAR: The world's authoritative and quality-assured directory of Open Access repositories.
http://www.opendoar.org/
CORE / UK OA aggregation: An aggregation of metadata and open access content from repositories and journals. Provides programmable access to
research outputs for text-mining and development of new services, a search engine and analytical tools. http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/search
Standards
Gold OA infrastructure group: large, international, cross-sector and cross-industry stakeholder group concerned with technical infrastructure for OA.
www.goldoa.org.uk/
RIOXX: Metadata profile allowing institutional repositories to share information about OA research papers and their compliance with funder policies.
http://rioxx.net/
V4OA: A set of vocabularies to describe relevant features of OA papers, including version, licence, readability, APC status and embargo. http://v4oa.net/
CASRAI research reporting: Working group within Jisc-CASRAI international pilot, seeking agreement between funders, HEIs and others, on metadata for
research reporting. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/researchinformation/casraipilot.aspx
Sector support
OA Good Practice: Institutionally-based Pathfinder projects developing and sharing new and effective ways to meet funders’ OA policies.
http://openaccess.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
OA implementation Community: Series of workshops, briefings, case studies, webinars, blogs, etc, supporting a community of practice implementing OA in
HEIs. http://openaccess.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
Repository Package: Support, including technical support, for institutional repositories taking up Jisc and other shared services and standards.
http://www.rsp.ac.uk/
Policy
Member of Universities-UK implementation and coordination group relating to the recommendations from the Finch Report.
Member of the Open Access Implementation Group. http://open-access.org.uk/
PASTEUR4OA: European project aiming to assess the effectiveness of OA policies and align them as far as possible across EU member states.
http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/
Management
Evaluation: Planning, collection and analysis of data to provide meaningful evidence of the value and impact of Jisc’s scholarly communications activities
Communications: Effective and meaningful communication of Jisc’s scholarly communications activities to stakeholders, customers and consumers.