Open access to be a requirement for UK research funding

Jisc today welcomed the announcement by Higher Education Funding Council for England’s (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Department for Employment and Learning that from 2016 they will expect all articles submitted to the Research Excellence Framework (REF), a system for assessing the quality of research, to be available by open access. This framework will be used by the HEFCE, the Scottish Funding Council, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Department for Employment and Learning in Northern Ireland to inform the selective allocation of their research funding to higher education institutions. This means that any university which applies for research funding will have to show how they support open access.

To read more go to: http://jisc.msgfocus.com/q/15QafQFQIHzibtY5Mr/wv

Sustaining digital collections: finding future funding | Jisc

Sustaining digital collections: finding future funding | Jisc:

There has been much debate about how we might help secure the future of digital scholarship for the next generation of learners, teachers and researchers. The business end of how this might be achieved in regards revenue generation beyond host institutional support remains a challenge.

Part of this debate raises concerns whether future generations will have access to and use of digital collections: those from galleries, libraries, archives and museums within and outside our universities. The focus has mostly been on digital curation and preservation but now is also the time to consider how revenue generation, beyond host institution support, can be achieved.

For more details go to: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/sustaining-digital-collections-finding-future-funding-27-mar-2014

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Web sustainability presentation

Presented 26th March 2014, Department of Computing and Immersive Technologies, School of Science and Technology, University of Northampton, UK as part of the Computing Research Seminar Series.


Citation:
Turner, Scott (2014): Web sustainability. figshare. 
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1005663