Shaping the future of Jisc OA services – A sector-wide view | Jisc scholarly communications

"Back in February we were asked by Jisc to help inform the development of Jisc’s future open access (OA) services, including Monitor Local, Monitor UK and Publications Router. Jisc were also keen to source institutions’ views on a proposed OA support service, encompassing both technical services and wider support for the OA community in HEIs. We realised that there were a number of gaps in the evidence base that needed to be filled for Jisc to make informed decisions about its future support for OA. Some of the key questions we wanted to address were: • How many peer-reviewed publications do UK universities produce each year? • What systems do they use to manage these publications? • How do institutions view Jisc’s support role in the area of open access? We set out to answer these questions by means of a survey of HEIs (to which 56 different institutions responded), and by combining a number of existing sources of data in order to paint a picture of the open access landscape in UK higher education. We are now pleased to present some of the key findings here ..."