Bringing method to madness
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
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
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
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
Jisc has announced its support for the global initiative ‘Subscribe to Open’ developed by the non-profit publisher Annual Reviews