This is the second in a three-part guest blog post written by Eddy Verbaan, Head of Library Research Support at Sheffield Hallam University. We need more data! When we started thinking about the practical implementation of our new policy, one of the first questions we addressed was: what data do we need to capture to […]
Tag: Repositories
Rights retention is an opportunity for the sector to challenge the existing paradigm. Implementation of funders’ rights retention policies has prompted many academic institutions to take even stronger steps towards supporting their researchers to retain rights by adopting Institutional Rights Retention Policies (IRRPs). We have been supporting all UK higher education institutions (HEIs) in accelerating […]
To support the launch of Jisc’s Institutional Rights Retention Policy (IRRP) Teams channel, Ruth Harrison (Head of Scholarly Communications Management at Imperial College London) shares her experience of developing and implementing Imperial’s policy. We hope that her experience will support others similarly tasked. This post aims to present some practical advice based on my experience […]