1.
Jisc Publications Router – helping you
capture your institution’s outputs
3 August
2015

2.
Lifecycle of a research article
Where Router fits in
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3.
Overview of Router – its rationale
»Simplify many-to-many
relationship between
publishers and IRs
»Direct articles to appropriate
institution(s)
»Alert institution to its outputs
»Help capture them to
repository or CRIS
What it’s for…
»Scalability: capturing outputs
published globally
»Capturing at acceptance
Key challenges
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4.
Jisc Publications Router – mark one
»Developed for Jisc
by EDINA
»Project objective:
to demonstrate a viable
prototype
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5.
Content providers to Router 1.0
»Europe PMC (metadata only)
»Trial with Nature Publishing
Group (with embargoed full
text)
Initially
»Full-text feed from Europe
PMC (from February 2014)
»eLife (from March 2015)
Currently
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6.
Engaging content providers
In-principle discussions held with about a dozen further
publishers
»Both subscription-dominated and OA
»Progressing to technical implementation has proved
challenging
»Plan to add direct feeds from mix of publishers
»Also investigating feasibility of multi-publisher solutions
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7.
Institutions benefiting from Router 1.0
Existing participants:
»University of Huddersfield
from 19 May 2014
»University of Reading
from 4 Aug 2014
»University of Salford
from October 2014
HEIs that indicated they were scheduling
installation of importer:
»Leicester, Southampton, Glasgow, Robert
Gordon, Sussex
Registered for email alerts:
»Sussex, Nottingham, Brunel
Signed agreement on embargoes:
»MIT, Leicester
Further interest from
»Warwick, Bath, Liverpool
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8.
A new phase for Jisc Publications Router
»Project at EDINA to complete on 31 July 2015
»Succeeded in demonstrating viable prototype
»Jisc has commissioned build of successor system
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9.
Introducing Jisc Publications Router 2.0
»Currently being developed by Cottage Labs
»Handover to Jisc staff early 2016
»Objective to develop a pilot for service
»Migrate existing institutions and content providers during
August-September 2015
»Recruit new participants thereafter
»Hope to move to full service status by August 2016
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10.
New Router – new system architecture
»Institution specifies parameters to decide
which articles it wants
»No longer needs installation of importer
»Flexibility in range of systems it can deliver to
»Focus on delivering current content
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Keeping what we’ve learned
Initially
»Institutions voiced preference for full-text deposit
Now
»Priority is to alert institutions to as much of their content
as we can
»Alert at acceptance, update on publication
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12.
New Router – closer integration
»Closer interoperability with the rest of Jisc's OA services
»Aiming for rapid expansion of content captured
»Open to serve more institutions in 2016
»Exploring international interoperability
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13.
Your priorities – how can we help?
Some ideas:
»Pass on metadata-only notifications from PubMed (wider
A&I database) – some of these are at or near acceptance
»Sharing between institutional repositories – co-author
problem
»Initial balance of OA vs non-OA publishers – try to go for
“big 5”?
»Anything we’ve not thought of?
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jisc.ac.uk
Find out more…
Contact…
Steve Byford
Scholarly Communications Manager, Jisc
steve.byford@jisc.ac.uk
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