Introducing Jisc Monitor | Jisc Monitor

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-06-21

Summary:

"Following on from the Jisc APC pilot project, which officially concludes at the end of July, the Jisc-funded Monitor project officially began on the 19th of May 2014.  It aims to come to terms with many of the needs and requirements identified during the year that the Jisc APC pilot ran.  Jisc Monitor has synergies with and complements Jisc funded work around the Open Mirror, Institutional Repository support projects, work with HEFCE and Research Councils around Open Access reporting requirements for institutions and ORCID pilots amongst others. This suite of services supports understanding of OA requirements and delivers practical solutions to address key concerns for the community. The purpose behind the Jisc Monitor project is to explore how a community-led, user centred, shared national service could help institutions manage their Open Access activity. Managed by Jisc Collections, its technical development, undertaken by the National Data Centre, Mimas, along with Sero Consulting, Cottage Labs and Knowledge Integration, will be supported by a collaborative approach with a focus on open source, open standards, interoperability, and linkages with international initiatives.  By listening and applying feedback, we will seek to find ways in which a potential Jisc Monitor national shared service may introduce efficiencies, propagate best practise and the development and application of standards facilitating data and system interoperability; assist in coordinating intelligence on institutions OA publications activity including compliance with funder mandates; and embrace the requirement that institutions have to manage and collect information across all their published material, including the monitoring of spend ..."

Link:

http://jiscmonitor.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2014/05/22/introducing-jisc-monitor/

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Tags:

oa.interoperability oa.standards oa.floss oa.compliance oa.mandates oa.funders oa.uk oa.ref oa.hefce oa.rcuk oa.jisc oa.new ru.sparc oa.policies

Date tagged:

06/21/2014, 07:04

Date published:

06/21/2014, 07:18