How we’ve been designing equitable foundations for open knowledge | Jisc

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-10-26

Summary:

"We pride ourselves on supporting the research community, and our service that we run with the Open University, “CORE”, does just that. CORE is a fantastic service that collates open access content from worldwide repositories and journals; facilitating free, unrestricted access to research for all.  Efficient, comprehensive, and effective discovery is at the heart of making open access materials inclusive and equitable, serving the needs of users all around the world.

CORE can get information out to schools, colleges, universities, and developing countries that don’t have as many resources, and, in fact, absolutely any institution in need of content and information. As of May 2018, CORE has aggregated over 131 million article metadata records, 93 million abstracts, 11 million hosted and validated full texts and over 78 million direct links to research papers hosted on other websites....

We know the world of OA can be complicated and a bit daunting, so we provide plenty of free guides on open access, from the open access good practice handbook, to advice on how to manage your open access costs and managing research data in your organisation....

Of course, we provide the Janet Network, the UK’s world-class research and education network. Moreover though, we pride ourselves on our services that help organisations and researchers alike to source the information they need to do their jobs well.

Open systems to support open access use need efficient infrastructure services for holding, preserving, curating, and providing access to information.

For example, our research shared data service (RDSS) will allow researchers to easily deposit data for publication, discovery, safe storage, archiving and preservation. This means that they are able to provide easy and open access to research data so it can be re-used...."

Link:

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/how-weve-been-designing-equitable-foundations-for-open-knowledge-23-oct-2018

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Date tagged:

10/26/2018, 14:39

Date published:

10/26/2018, 10:39