A significant outcome of the E2EOA project (Glasgow, Lancaster, Southampton and Kent) is the metadata profile/specification for Open Access. The key idea for this metadata profile is that it supersedes any system related profiles. Instead it provides a comprehensive starting point from where you can adopt the profile to your liking in the system of … Read more
Catherine Sharp of the UCL/ Newcastle/ Nottingham ‘Pathways to Open Access’ writes: UCL, Nottingham and Newcastle are pleased to announce that the baseline report from our Pathfinder project, comparing our approaches to open access, is now available. Like all thePathfinders’ outputs, the report is initially presented in draft form. Please send us anycomments between now … Read more
A report from the Northumbria/ Sunderland Pathfinder workshop, How to be innovative in Open Access with limited resources, which took place in Newcastle in October is available here. The summary includes an overview of the day, links to the full reports on each session, and a set of draft recommendations which were drawn from the … Read more
Jisc Collections has published its own ebook called Ebooks in Education: Realizing the Vision. The book brings together the experiences of colleagues in universities and colleges across the UK, describing how managers, teachers and librarians are encouraging the use of ebooks and why ebooks can be an important asset for institutions, academics and students. It … Read more
This webinar provided an overview of the rationale, adopted methodology and data analysis / research, which has formed part of the Jisc Collections ‘Total Cost of Ownership’ (TCO) project. Specifically the webinar covered: The details of APC payments currently being made by institutions A comparison of subscription payments being made by institutions An estimate of … Read more
This is the first in a series of quarterly updates that will synthesize and share our OA Good Practice Pathfinder projects’ progress, outputs and lessons learnt plus any practical tools and reports in order to discover what’s working well for institutions in a real world environment of open access (OA) implementation. Given the wide scope … Read more