Guidance on policy development

Guidance on increasing repository deposit

Theme: Facilitating access, Publishing and disseminating
Type: Policy Guidance
Added: 06 September 2010
This short briefing offers initial guidance for developing levels of content deposit, especially relevant for people making the transition to a properly mandated repository.

Policies on publishing research papers to deliver best value for the HEI

Theme: Publishing and disseminating
Type: Policy Guidance
Added: 04 September 2010
This JISC Briefing Paper has been written by two convinced advocates of the Open Access approach, both of whom bring long-established experience in the field of scholarly communications.

Paying for open access publication charges

Theme: Facilitating access, Publishing and disseminating
Type: Policy Guidance
Added: 04 September 2010
This guidance gives advice on paying for open access publication charges in journals and sets out recommendations for higher education institutions, publishers, research funders, and authors.

Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing

Theme: Facilitating access, Publishing and disseminating
Type: Policy Guidance
Added: 03 September 2010
This guide focuses on facilitating Open Access scholarly journals publishing, referring to the publication of peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts under the umbrella of a specific journal title.

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines

Theme: Publishing and disseminating
Type: Policy Guidance
Added: 02 September 2010
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is a UK-registered charity concerned with the integrity of peer-reviewed publications in science, particularly biomedicine.

Research Information Network output – research and guidance

Theme: Assuring quality of research, Publishing and disseminating
Type: Policy Guidance
Added: 02 September 2010
The Research Information Network aims to support, and be a source of guidance for, researchers, institutions, funders, and information professionals in their work.

Guide to Policy-making for Research Data in Repositories

Theme: Assuring quality of research, Publishing and disseminating
Type: Policy Guidance
Added: 31 August 2010
The guide is a public deliverable of the JISC-funded DISC-UK DataShare project (2007-2009) which established institutional data repositories and related services at some partner institutions – a distilled result of the experience of the partners, together with Digital Life Cycle Research & Consulting.

Intellectual Property Rights and multimedia deposits

Theme: Ensuring recognition and reward, Publishing and disseminating
Type: Policy Guidance
Added: 31 August 2010
The purpose of this learning object from the Welsh Repository Network is to explore the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) that may be within multimedia items, and to highlight some of the complications and considerations that need to be taken into account before a deposit of this type can be made into a repository.

JISC infoNet - The Importance of Strategy

Theme: Assuring quality of research, Facilitating access, Publishing and disseminating
Type: Policy Guidance
Added: 25 August 2010
This infoNit is designed to be of relevance and assistance to those who play an active role in the formulation or implementation of strategic planning processes within their institution.