Jisc, a not-for-profit organisation committed to providing UK universities and colleges shared digital infrastructure and services, and Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, have signed an agreement setting out how they will work together to support institutions to comply with UK open access policies, as part of their Open Science partnership, agreed in 2016 as a component of the UK Elsevier ScienceDirect renewal.
Both Jisc and Elsevier share the goal of making academic research and its contribution to scholarship, education, and social and economic development visible, and to support the successful and efficient, implementation of funder open access policies. In particular, Jisc and Elsevier share a commitment to help institutions implement the open access eligibility criteria for the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF).
With timely access to Elsevier's ScienceDirect article and journal-level metadata, for example article acceptance date, embargo date, and grant/funder IDs, Jisc's Publications Router service will be able to support UK institutions more efficiently and comprehensively identify UK-published articles at various stages of the publication process. UK institutions will be able to access this metadata via Elsevier's APIs directly within their institutional repository or can get tailored feeds via the Jisc Publications Router. Subsequently, institutions can ingest metadata into library systems and repositories giving institutions greater insight into their researchers' publishing activities-empowering them to take steps to comply with open access policies.
Elsevier publishes 17 percent of UK authored papers. This agreement, therefore, marks a significant contribution towards helping UK universities identify publications and contribute towards REF compliance. This agreement boosts Router's input coverage of UK authored papers from 63 percent to 74 percent, taking into account some overlap with sources already used by Router.
Jisc and Elsevier anticipate that further opportunities for this kind of collaboration will be identified by the Jisc-Elsevier Open Science Forum, an additional outcome of the 2016 UK ScienceDirect agreement between Elsevier and Jisc Collections.
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