UK research universities already ‘open doors’
Adam Tickell outlines the open access achievements UK research universities can be proud of and the next steps needed to remain a global leader…
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A messy world: managing research data matters
Jude Towers and David Ellis from Lancaster University discuss data practices in the evolving world of 24/7 data generation and what this means for…
Peter Lang partners with Jisc on UK agreement
Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group has partnered with Jisc to make its e-book collections of monographs, proceedings and reference works available for purchase
A commitment to openness
Director of open science and research lifecycle at Jisc, Rachel Bruce, tells us about her career path and the current challenges facing the research…
IWD 2018: Keeping feminism alive for a digital generation
Jisc, the UK’s organisation for education technology, is working with Reveal Digital, a US-based open access publisher, to make independent and alternative press collections…
Libraries set to save thousands with Jisc pilot
A second wave of a Jisc pilot, which last year saved participating libraries £127,000 on purchasing digital archival collections, has been launched
ProQuest
ProQuest is adding 24 primary sources to its offering through the Jisc Digital archival collections group purchasing pilot, following the adoption of its databases…
Kortext accepted onto Jisc purchasing service
Kortext has been accepted onto the new Jisc Learning Analytics Purchasing Service as a supplier for Learning Analytics Solutions, Services and Infrastructure
Making the monograph sustainable
Verena Weigert and Graham Stone ask what can we learn from other countries to preserve the monograph
Arkivum to take part in Jisc data pilot
Arkivum, a provider of long-term data safeguarding solutions, is to take part in Jisc’s Research Data Shared Service pilot for UK higher education institutions
Jisc launches group-purchasing pilot
Jisc is giving subscribing universities and research centres access to more than 20 collections from three major publishers as part of a group-purchasing pilot