The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced the launch of a definitive guide to its 15 years of work in Open Access as part of International Open Access Week (October 19 – 23, 2009). The guide, Open Access for UK research: JISC’s contributions - Summary of achievements, has been created to showcase the work JISC has achieved for scholarly communications in the UK and tracks the changes in UK policy, opinions and what the future will look like.
The guide is supported by electronic resources including interviews with experts from across education and research. This suite of information is being launched to support UK researchers in opening up their work for better returns on taxpayers’ investment.
According to JISC, the increased impact of wider access to academic research papers could be worth about £170 million per year to the UK economy. Work funded by JISC in UK colleges and universities includes cost-benefit analysis and case studies showing why and how universities can support a transition to open access for research outputs and an investigation into the feasibility of a national purchasing scheme for Open Access publication charges.
JISC will also be looking at the challenges facing academic librarians to support researchers in sharing their research papers through repositories, working with Open Access and traditional model publishers, as well as researchers themselves in terms of what they need and desire to promote their work. In the coming months JISC will conduct an investigation into the feasibility of a national scheme for Open Access publication charges.
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