Jisc Open Access Update, Issue 8: March 2018

"Welcome to the March issue

Jisc’s open access services continue to grow. Both the Monitor and Publications Router services are fully operational and adding value for an increasing number of our members: negotiations are underway to expand the services with institutions, publishers and CRIS vendors. The first voluntary donations for RoMEO from users around the world have started to come in, which will go some way to offsetting the cost of service provision and future development. IRUS and ORCID are developing well, as reported below. The OA discovery service CORE is the largest global aggregator of OA full text material by some margin and continues to grow every month. Engagement with publishers in our services is growing across the board with the development of good relationships in information provision. All this takes place against the background of institutions putting in place robust and scalable models to ingest research outputs to comply with the REF policy and the consequent growth of material now available. Difficulties remain, but there is a strong sense that the open access infrastructure is now accepted by all stakeholders as a functioning and expected part of the scholarly communication environment. Onward and upward!..."