Jo Lambert and Brian Mitchell
Jisc Monitor Workshop – Jisc Digital Festival
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Workshop aims
» Reflections on Jisc APC
» Jisc Monitor aims
» Workshop activity
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Jisc APC Pilot: aims & objectives
APCs Systems and processes
Information sharing Role of 3rd party provider
Sustainability
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Some reflections to date
» Compliance and reporting requirements
» Workflows and processes still being established
» Managing communications
» Infrastructures not yet in place
» Standards - lack of/not fully adopted
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Reflections on the Jisc APC platform
» Level of APCs
» Publisher engagement
» Financial transactions
» Data flow and exchange with other key systems
» Value of an intermediary service
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Jisc Monitor context
» Reflecting and building on outputs of Jisc APC
» HEFCE policy from Jan 2016 is likely to mandate Open Access availability for all journal and conference proceedings submitted to REF 2020
» 1 year project starting April 2014 to scope and explore how a Jisc managed shared service might support institutions in meeting this requirement
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Jisc Monitor outputs
› Prototypes mapped to 4 use cases and released as free and open source software by April 2015
› Supported by robust user feedback and an assessment of the opportunities, challenges and dependencies that are likely to impact development
› Recommendations for further development of components
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Use cases
Monitoring all publication activity to ensure compliance with funder
mandates
Monitoring all publication activity to ensure a clear understanding of
what has been published
Standards development to enable efficient data exchange
Monitoring spend on all items
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Jisc Monitor principles
» Collaboration is key
» User-centred development
» Agile approach
» Open-source
OA Landscape
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Compliance with funder mandates
» Jisc Monitor analyses the publication data to determine whether they are compliant with funders’ mandates
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Understanding what has been published
» Jisc Monitor aggregates data from various sources in the form of a database / knowledge base of an institution’s publication activity
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Standards and interoperability
» Jisc Monitor connects publisher and institution systems to collate publication data from the point of manuscript submission to acceptance of manuscript and subsequent publication
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Monitoring spend
» Jisc Monitor provides data on how much an institution has spent on their OA publications and subscriptions
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Workshop activity
» 20 minute group activity
» 10 minute feedback
» Select a use case and reflect on the following questions:
› What are the key challenges for your institution?
› How are you addressing those challenges within your institution?
› How can Jisc support you in addressing these challenges? (local, national, international). What should our priorities be?