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Collecting data on open access publications

Author: Amy Devenney (Research and Business Intelligence Strategic Lead, Jisc) In 2019, an article by the Knowledge Exchange (KE) demonstrated the difficulty of efficiently collating consistent article-level metadata to enable the monitoring and evaluation on Transitional Agreements  (TAs) and the burden this placed on our members. Therefore, over the last eighteen months, we have been […]

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How to make more than 200 monograph titles available OA annually on a small-ish budget

This is a blog post by Caroline Mackay (Licensing Manager, Jisc): When it comes to library budgets, how far can £10,000 stretch? Access to a small database, a couple of journals, a handful of article processing charges (APCs), maybe one OA book via a book processing charge (BPC)? That figure might also support scholar-led and […]

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Can prediction markets be used to help assess research quality?

This post has been written by Dr Jacqueline Thomson, Senior Research Associate at the School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol. Researchers from the University of Bristol, in partnership with Jisc, have completed a pilot project investigating how prediction markets might be used to help institutions make decisions about which outputs to submit to future […]