Jisc – Access

Jisc launches digital transformation library lens: a strategic toolkit to empower academic libraries

LibrariesOctober 10, 2025

(1 Oct 2025) Developed in collaboration with senior library leaders and representatives from the Society of College, National, and University Libraries (SCONUL), Research Libraries UK (RLUK), and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), the digital transformation library lens offers a library focused perspective on our established framework for digital transformation in higher education. It highlights…

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Scite partners with Jisc to enhance UK higher & further education research

PublishersJuly 26, 2024

(18 Jul 2024) Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS), a trusted partner providing cloud-based workflow solutions to accelerate research for R&D-driven organizations, is proud to announce a significant partnership with Jisc, the UK digital, data, and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research, and innovation. This collaboration will make Scite’s award-winning AI platform more affordable and accessible for…

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Open access transitional agreements ‘risk becoming the norm’ according to Jisc review

Open AccessMarch 12, 2024

(8 Mar 2024) The UK is adapting to open access faster than the global average, but transitional agreements intended to be temporary are at risk of becoming the norm, leaving too much crucial research trapped behind paywalls, according to a Jisc review. The UK sector’s technology body has published its review of transitional agreements (TAs), charting the progress of open access and billed…

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Jisc creates framework to guide higher education to digital transformation

Information literacy, InternetMarch 14, 2023

(8 Mar 2023) In a sector first, Jisc has released a framework to help universities make strategic moves towards digital transformation. Underlining the importance of digital technology in delivering education, Jisc has released a framework to help universities improve strategic planning around necessary digital transformation. The first framework for digital transformation in higher education contains…

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What does a university need to be digitally successful?

TechnologySeptember 28, 2022

(7 Sep 2022) What might higher education look like in ten years? Education is fundamentally a human activity so, while technology will undoubtedly become ever more prevalent, it will not replace people. Sarah Knight, Head of learning and teaching transformation, higher education, Jisc, shares her thoughts and Jisc resources that might help universities to plan for the…

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Million-page science collection to be digitised

DigitizationOctober 15, 2019

(14 Oct 2019) The not-for-profit technology provider for research and education, Jisc, and the publisher Wiley, are to digitise a one-million-page collection on the history of science. The collection will largely comprise content from the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), now the British Science Association (BSA). Universities in the UK will also be…

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Jisc router agreement with IOP Publishing

Publishers, Research SupportSeptember 24, 2019

(23 Sep 2019) A new agreement between IOP Publishing (IOPP) and Jisc will enable the provision of journal articles published on a gold open access basis directly to institutional repositories in the UK. Using a service called the Jisc Publications Router, IOPP will pass published articles, in their final published versions, directly to the correct institutional repositories…

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Jisc announces three new library services

LibrariesJuly 29, 2019

(22 July 2019) Jisc is launching three new library services on 31 July 2019. Library hub discover, library hub compare, and library hub cataloguing will make it easier for UK higher education libraries and researchers to access, discover and manage academic collections. Neil Grindley, head of resource discovery at Jisc, said: “We are delighted to…

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Jisc Collections to offer Yewno technology to UK higher education institutions

PublishersApril 16, 2019

(15 Apr 2019) Yewno, Inc., a leading provider of artificial intelligence-driven knowledge discovery solutions, today announces that they have entered into an agreement with Jisc Collections to offer the Yewno Discover research platform to UK higher education institutions at a discounted rate. Jisc Collections works on behalf of the UK higher education sector to negotiate and…

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Cambridge University Press and Jisc Collections sign major UK Open Access deal

Open Access, PublishersFebruary 13, 2019

(12 February 2019) Cambridge University Press and the Jisc Collections have reached a progressive agreement, which will enable UK universities and colleges to make a sustainable transition to publishing more Open Access content in the publisher’s journals. JISC Collections provides UK academic institutions with shared infrastructure and services and the three-year deal is designed to…

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