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Universities Will Cancel Deals with Publishers if They Don't Respond to Current Financial Pressures

Universities Will Cancel Deals with Publishers if They Don't Respond to Current Financial Pressures

A price freeze on journal subscriptions will not be enough to avoid UK researchers losing access to key academic content, warn three major sector bodies representing academic library directors and higher education managers. 

UK Universities Reach New National Open Access Deal

UK Universities Reach New National Open Access Deal

Researchers from 180 UK universities can now benefit from a national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers, the second largest fully open access publisher in the UK.

Accelerating Scholarly Communication: The Transformative Role of Preprints

Accelerating Scholarly Communication: The Transformative Role of Preprints

Study explores the place of preprints in the research lifecycle from the points of view of researchers, research performing organisations, research funding organisations and preprint servers/service providers.

Jisc Collections and Elsevier agreement: Questions and Answers

Jisc Collections and Elsevier agreement: Questions and Answers

On behalf of UK institutions, Jisc Collections has signed an agreement with Elsevier, covering access to research publications. The five-year, opt-in agreement offers subscription access to around 2,116 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect online platform.

New forum for responsible research metrics launched

New forum for responsible research metrics launched

A group of research funders, sector bodies and infrastructure experts are working together in partnership to promote the responsible use of research metrics. 

Many hands make light work

Many hands make light work

Open science will be one of the priorities of the Dutch presidency of the European Union in 2016.

National consortium for ORCID set to improve UK research visibility and collaboration

National consortium for ORCID set to improve UK research visibility and collaboration

ORCID will now be offered to UK higher education institutions through a national consortium arrangement operated by Jisc.