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Equipment Data Service Development Update

In 2024, the equipment data service undertook several initiatives to enhance data quality, improve transparency, and increase efficiency. We explored ways to expand the service beyond its initial policy compliance use case. Our discovery work involved identifying potential use cases for the dataset and commissioning Research Consulting to review institutional systems and data workflows related […]

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Octopus is now delivering records via Publications Router

Full-text publications from Octopus, the innovative platform for scholarly research, are now being deposited automatically into UK repositories via a live feed into Jisc’s Publications Router. What is being delivered? Octopus joins an extensive and growing list of traditional publishers who are depositing articles into Publications Router. This ensures that work published on the platform […]

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Review of Jisc equipment data harvesting – report published

Jisc commissioned Research Consulting to undertake a review of institutional and supplier systems workflows, including identifying institutional sources of truth for equipment data records, in order to optimise data harvesting for the Equipment Data Service (EDS). The project took place between February and April 2024 and involved interviews, written contributions and a workshop webinar. The […]