Bodies agree initiative that will allow institutions to make their digital special collections freely available to millions of researchers, faculties, and students around the globe
Paul Stokes
Data is everywhere – but where does it come from, where is it being stored, and is it worth keeping? It is crucial to take stock, says Paul Stokes
Liz Bal, director of open research services at Jisc
Preservation, a new Jisc service, is aimed at making it easier for institutions to keep their digital collections accessible and reusable, comply with multiple mandates and fulfil their statutory obligations.
A price freeze on journal subscriptions will not be enough to avoid UK researchers losing access to key academic content, warn three major sector bodies representing academic library directors and higher education managers.
From deposits to discovery, Rebecca Pool looks at the long and winding journey of the institutional repository
Alex Freeman
Documentary-maker Alex Freeman never imagined she would create a tool that could overhaul the structure of academic publishing, writes Faye Holst
Major academic publishers are being urged to reduce their prices by 25 per cent on all agreements in light of the severe financial impact institutions are facing because of the pandemic
Jisc, a not-for-profit supplier of technology for research and education in the UK, and Lyrasis, a global non-profit membership association, are joining forces to introduce Institutional Repository Usage Statistics in the United States
More than 120 UK universities are now being set up to enable access to critical textbook content for upwards of 1.4 million students
Kortext, the UK digital textbook platform, in conjunction with Jisc, the UK’s not for profit education and research services provider, is launching a nationwide programme to ensure all 2.4m university students and 217K academic staff have access to key learning resources
Interviews for this article have been adapted from recent PhaidraCon roundtable events and from upcoming 2023 editions of EpistemiCast
Patrick Hargitt explains why 2022 became the year that accessibility got serious
Joseph Koivisto and Jordan Sly from the University of Maryland discuss the implications of the publications-as-data model
Despite the collective and decisive step changes in enabling the transition to open access this year, we should not be complacent, writes Susie Winter
Thomas Shaw and Andrew Barker from Lancaster University Library discuss the realities, challenges and future impact of open access in the research community
It’s not a question of if, but how. The future of scholarly publishing is open, yet the debate on how to accelerate the growth of open access continues
