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No full textA summary of key Jisc supported initiatives and projects in learning and curriculum desig
Case study: How Jisc’s connections to China improve student experience
No full textStudents at QMUL’s partner universities in China need seamless
access to UK-hosted course materials – whether on campus or off.
Here’s how Jisc helped improve their digital experience, by working
with networks and providers behind the scene
A landscape study on open access and monographs
No full textKnowledge Exchange is continuously active in promoting Open Access by bringing together Open Access experts from all six KE partner countries. The study was initiated by Knowledge Exchange and financed by Knowledge Exchange (http://www.knowledge-exchange.info), FWF (https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/), CRIStin (http://www.cristin.no/english/) and Couperin (http://www.cristin.no/english/), and together with the skilled expertise of Eelco Ferwerda, Frances Pinter and Niels Stern, we can now publish the biggest landscape study on the conditions and potentials for Open Access books yet.
The report builds on i.a. 73 in-depth conversations, conducted across eight different countries (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Norway and Austria) to understand current developments among three stakeholder groups: Publishers, funders and libraries. The importance of author attitudes, scholarly reward and incentive systems is also raised throughout the study by numerous interviewees.
The study shows that although the main OA policies do not include monographs, conversations about OA and monographs are surfacing and are expected to be accelerating over the next few years. The general explanation for monographs not being included in policies is the global focus on journal publishing and the perception that monographs are more complex to deal with than journals. Some also point to a lack of demand yet from authors.
In general, OA book publishers will comply with gold OA policies from funders and institutions. This is not the case for green OA. It appears that the current self archiving policies from publishers for books are largely restricted to book chapters.
The report also points towards the fact that funding schemes for books are lagging behind schemes for articles and their availability to fund the publishing process is somewhat ad hoc across the countries we’ve surveyed. Nevertheless the authors are ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the prospects for OA and monographs.
The report creates an overview of both the OA monographs policies, funding streams and publishing models for all eight countries for the first time
Digital capability technology mapping
No full textA draft mapping table that could be used with staff as part of a staff development activity, supporting their consideration of what functional skills and possible technologies might be relevant to support the development of particular digitial capabilities as they relate to the six elements of digital capability framework
Investigation of solutions for access to academic books in a digital form
No full textStudents studying in UK Higher Education (HE) may receive reading lists consisting of 30 or 40 books, or specific chapters in books. Librarians desperately want to satisfy student demand by providing more e-books, but are frequently unable to find or acquire around 50% of the titles they need in e-format. Although academic libraries continue to provide their users with print copies, e-book editions are also needed to:
• support distance learners
• meet the expectations of lecturers and students who expect that all recommended reading will be available on-line
• enable searching and quick browsing
• improve accessibility for students with visual impairments
• reduce pressure on library space
This study has investigated the problem of non-availability of e-books through discussion with UK academic librarians and publishers. There is a raft of reasons why librarians are unable to find or acquire the titles they need. These include: price; publishers’ business and licensing policies; a long-tail of small and poorly resourced small publishers; and supply chain and metadata issues. The study also found a wide chasm in understanding of these issues between publishers and librarians
Learning analytics and student success – assessing the evidence
No full textThis briefing summarises some of the published evidence for the
effectiveness of learning analytics initiatives. It builds on the findings
of our 2016 report “Learning Analytics in Higher Education: a review
of UK and international practice
