Hear JISC Interviews and Perspectives on Why and How They Support Open Access

 ”We are really  pleased to present our short overview guide to our Open Access work over recent years in an ‘interactive pdf’ format - click on the images to hear interviews and perspectives on why and how we currently support Open Access, and likewise click on any of the inside back cover ‘tag cloud’  links to access overviews of the many reports in this area that we have commissioned over the years.

(Click on image to go to PDF)

Executive Secretary, JISC — Malcolm Reed 

CEO, JISC Collection — Lorraine Estelle

JISC  IE  Programme Manager — Andy McGregory

JISC  IE  Programme Manager — Neil Jacobs

View the new JISC Open Access website

Opening the knowledge base to all means more researchers can build on it and there is less duplication of effort. Researchers can reach a greater audience and find that their work is more widely read and cited, institutions gain an enhanced reputation as their research becomes more visible, funding agencies see a greater return on their investment, and publishers find that the impact of their journals increases.  JISC has been at the forefront of the Open Access debate from the very beginning

As a result, publicly-funded research has more impact and society as a whole benefits.

JISC has been at the forefront of the Open Access debate from the very beginning. In the UK it is supporting institutions in the move to greater Open Access by funding programmes to build and enhance institutional Open Access repositories. It is helping researchers to use those repositories more effectively, and making it easier for them to do so through technology. JISC is also working with publishers to explore new business models for Open Access scholarly communications. Internationally, JISC is engaging with the wider academic research community and with policy-makers to transform attitudes towards Open Access within Europe and beyond.