What do researchers care about? It’s probably uncontentious to say that they care about access, cost, copyright and quality. There’s a report published last month from the JISC Scholarly Communications Group that goes into a bit more detail: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/aboutus/workinggroups/topconcernsreport.doc There are perhaps few surprises – the concerns might be paraphrased as ‘lack of access’, ‘some … Read more
Jorum has recently been awarded £2.4m by JIIE to do what so many people have said needs doing: it is going open access! The new service (“JorumOpen”) will operate under a Creative Commons License and will not require user registration to access and download its content. Users that have already contributed content through existing licences … Read more
The information environment, and repositories in particular, were highlighted by Sir Ron Cooke (JISC chair), in his opening keynote at the JISC conference. (See the online conference proceedings.) He described the vision of a national e-infrastructure supporting the “body of knowledge” at the centre. He told delegates that “[his] nightmare is the challenge of the … Read more
We’re hoping to present some themed web pages on the innovation work being funded under the JISC Information Environment area, including one on research data. I thought I’d use this blog to offer preview / pilot that page. I’m not sure if that’s an acceptable use of a blog, but I’m sure I’ll find out. … Read more
Having missed most of the presentations at the Open Repositories conference in Southampton this week, my reflections on the event have been prompted more by the Southampton-MIT collaboration described by Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt before the conference dinner, the Web Science research centre. Initiatives such as this (see also, for example, the Oxford Internet … Read more
On 9th May Phil Vaughan will be leaving the JISC to join the British Library and work on UK PubMed Central. Phil has managed the Tools and Innovation programme and the JORUM learning objects repository work while at JISC. As part of this Phil has worked with the JORUM team in thinking through a range … Read more
Spring seems to have sprung in London today, so it seems an appropriate day to launch the JISC Information Environment team’s newborn blog. What’s an information environment? Well, that’s a good question with a long answer. The best place to start is the JISC webpage. This blog will communicate information for and about the JISC … Read more