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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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How Jisc enhanced and developed the REF2021 dataset (to support the UKRI Open Access policy for longform publications) 

  The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions (HEIs). Institutions are invited to make submissions in 34 subject-based units of assessment (UoAs).  For each submission, three distinct elements are assessed by an expert panel: the quality of outputs (e.g., publications, performances, and […]

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Moving Ahead with the UK National PID Strategy

This post has been written by MoreBrains Cooperative. Over the past few years, Jisc has been driving conversations about the need for a UK national strategy for persistent identifiers, in response to Professor Adam Tickell’s 2018 advice to the UK government on open access to research, in which he recommended that Jisc should lead on […]