Jisc projects and services update | Jisc Scholarly Communications

"This post gives an update on those activities, where we’ve got to, next steps, and some sense of timescales in the medium term. Sherpa/FACT accuracy. We really had hoped to release the findings of the survey by this time. I won’t go into details on why that hasn’t been possible so far, but suffice to say perhaps that the main message remains, that FACT is accurate, and is more accurate than each institution checking policies individually. I hope soon we can release the data to demonstrate this. Sherpa/Juliet and the schema for OA policies. While we think this is complete, it is a rather intimidating spreadsheet, and so we are talking with potential partners about whether a simple interface can be built onto it, to make it easier to use. I’m not sure of the timescales for this. Sherpa/RoMEO. Slow progress in setting up discussions with publishers about the clarity of their OA policies, just due to workloads. This will be a priority over the next few weeks. Jisc Collections. We have published a set of principles for offsetting agreements with publishers, based on our experiences so far. This has prompted some discussion and features now in our negotiations with publishers on this issue ..."