Institutional participation in the pilot programme, which is taking place between January and July 2016, will be a critical to the Jisc Monitor project as it is developed from ideas, requirements and prototype software to a Jisc service. Jisc Monitor combines two applications, which may be used separately or as an integrated service. Monitor Local … Read more
Back Story Completing at the end of May 2015, and with inputs from over 60 UK institutions, the 12 month Jisc Monitor project is tasked with developing designs and prototype software that indicate how institutions (and the broader supply chain) might go about supporting and tracking Open Access publication processes, especially with reference to compliance … Read more
In this final part of the Jisc Monitor project, Cottage Labs will be looking to tie up a number of threads that have been working on throughout. Open Access compliance checking is currently a task carried out by humans, and there is no one single place to look for the relevant information. This means that … Read more
Before Christmas I blogged about the work we were doing on creating a specification for a system which could help institutions manage aspects of Open Access publishing at a local level. We started this work focussing on the data and processes related to the payment of APCs, but it very quickly became apparent that any system in … Read more
Starting from the spreadsheets developed in the Jisc Collections TCO project, which aimed to identify and collect key APC information, we have been working to create a generalised data model which would allow us to build a coherent aggregation upon which to build useful analytics. These spreadsheets are focussed on an individual institution’s knowledge of … Read more
In the current phase of Jisc Monitor (running up until Christmas 2014), we are looking at the financial and cost aspects of Open Access publishing, with a particular focus on APCs. The work is split into two parts: Prototyping a system which can aggregate and report on cost information from across institutions Writing a specification … Read more
As has been outlined and discussed in previous blog posts, the potential success for the Jisc Monitor pilot rests with receiving robust feedback and collaborative efforts from many interested parties. To that end, we put together two workshops, focusing on the four use cases we are developing into prototypes, which we will then subsequently test … Read more
The nature of research is increasingly international in scope and requires collaboration and cooperation between people and organisations. In a similar vein, Jisc Monitor embraces such a combined approach. After all, there are other complementary projects and initiatives out there that are integral to the use cases areas that Jisc Monitor is seeking to explore. … Read more
Running up to the end of the first quarter, we have been working on detecting licences of open access articles from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). There are 1.7 million articles in the DOAJ, and approximately 50% have DOIs (and so are processable), so the scale of the task is not insignificant. Even … Read more
Blog post by David Kay on behalf of the Jisc Monitor development team The idea This idea was introduced at the July 8th London workshop, where institutions suggested a template application whereby authors (or institutions on their behalf) could establish and reuse the profile data required by the supply chain to identify a person, their … Read more