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JISC provides infrastructure to support research excellence in the UK, including the JANET network and data centers. They aim to increase the impact and visibility of research through open access policies and improved research data management. JISC is working with stakeholders to transition to open access publishing and develop modular research information management systems. They provide guidance and tools to help universities collaborate with businesses and manage legal aspects of external engagement. JISC also supports improved research data management through online resources, training, and investments in digital curation and data management programs.
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- 1. 13/09/2011Wellcome Collection ConferenceCentreslide 1JISC: supporting research integritySarah Porter
- 2. Infrastructure for researchexcellenceJISC provides infrastructure for research excellenceNational strategically important infrastructure services for research such as the JANET network, data centres, repository infrastructure
- 3. Supporting universities tomake effective and efficient use of technology – in research and in the management of research Key themes:Increasing the impact and visibility of research
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- 5. Management of researchinformation
- 6. Collaboration with businessand the community
- 7. Improved management ofresearch data.13/09/2011Wellcome Collection Conference Centreslide 2
- 8. Increasing the impactand visibility of researchUniversities:Demonstrate the contribution they make to the knowledge economy
- 9. Improve their chancesin the competition for government research funding
- 10. Position themselves wellto work with business and community partnersJISC is a leader in the movement towards making research outputs more openly available and we believe:An institution’s research reputation benefits when authors make their research papers freely available
- 11. More frequently citedthan those solely available via subscription based journals
- 12. Open Access benefitsthe economy and society 13/09/2011Wellcome Collection Conference Centreslide 3
- 13. For the Future:JISCis working with key stakeholders in a number of ways to develop ways of making the transition to Open Access.Convening the UK Open Access Implementation Group
- 14. Resource summarising informationand guidance for HEIs moving to Open Access
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- #3 JISC - Provides the Infrastructure for Research ExcellenceJISC pioneers and provides national strategically important infrastructure services for research. We have made a continued long-term commitment to research, investing in UK universities to create a collaborative innovation engine that drives and delivers new products and approaches and increases the sector skills and capacity of UK research now and in the future.
- #4 Universities:demonstrate the contribution they make to the knowledge economy.improve their chances in the competition for government research funding.position themselves well to work with business and community partners.JISC is a leader in the movement towards making research outputs more openly availableWe believe:An institution’s research reputation benefits when authors make their research papers freely available to readers over the internet via an open access repository or journal. Studies have shown that such papers are more frequently cited than those solely available via subscription based journals. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18516/ (a meta review of 31 studies) http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/categories/17-OA-Impact-Advantage(Stevan Harnad’s blog posts on this issue, featuring many further references) Full bibliography of studies in this area:http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html Open Access benefits not only researchers and their institutions, but the economy and society at large, as the outputs of publicly-funded research are available for all to use. This can be seen from the outputs of the 2009 Houghton study (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2009/economicpublishingmodelsfinalreport.aspx) and in similar studies in other countries (http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=316) A More recent joint project, conducted in conjunction with the Research Information Network, publishers, Research Libraries UK, and Wellcome, came to much the same conclusions and recommended Open Access on the basis of these conclusions.http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/heading-open-road-costs-and-benefits-transitions-s
- #5 For the future:JISC is working with key stakeholders in a number of ways to develop ways of making the transition to Open Access. JISC is convening the UK Open Access Implementation Group, whose members include UUK, RLUK, SCONUL, RCs, Wellcome, Public Library of Science, Association of Research Managers and Administration, UCL and the Universities of Edinburgh and Salford JISC has produced a resource summarising the information and guidance for HEIs moving to OA. JISC has produced guidance for small learned societies in journal tendering, including on OA options JISC has funded research into the benefits of OA to the private, public and third sectors, to build the case It has also held discussions with publishers and other stakeholders on practical steps that need to be taken.extracting useful information across repositories:Repository search project at MIMASCORE – connecting repositoriesWorking with research information management systems to provide HEIs with information about publications and usage data to inform management and research decisionOAIG is a coalition of the willing, so it is those organisations committed to OA and willing to work together to implement it. However, the group needs to be small enough to be effective, hence there are no plans to expand the group at the moment. This will be reviewed.
- #6 Why should Universities collaborate?In a world where many research challenges are too big for a single institution to tackle - and the best facilities attract the best researchers - institutions must collaborate in order to remain competitive. Digital technologies enable researchers to collaborate in cross-disciplinary, international teams by sharing resources such as data, computing power and software over the Internet. Access to very large data sets and enormous computing power allows researchers to tackle challenges that would otherwise be intractable. What JISC is doing to helpJISC provides national strategically important digital infrastructure services for research to keep UK institutions competitive in research. Our current and future work on virtual research environments will focus on embedding them in institutions and building communities of practice.
- #7 In 2013, institutions will start submitting information to the Research Excellence Framework. For the first time research assessment will include an explicit recognition of the impact of research (20%), so universities will need to demonstrate the contribution their research makes to the economy and society The Research Councils and Higher Education Statistics Agency are also demanding new and better information about research, especially on research outputs and outcomes.Not sure they are. Need to be sure about this, as it is politically sensitive, eg what role (if any) they may play in REF2014 and subsequent REFs.RCs and other funders are looking into better understanding and recording the impact of the research they fund HESA are seeking to both improve and reduce the burden of their data collection Many institutions are looking to deploy a new research information management system to meet these requirements. JISC has funded a lot of work demonstrating the benefits of using the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) as the standard for exchanging research information and exploring the ways in which universities can use their systems for planning, managing and reporting their research activities and outputs. Examples of these include: BRUCE at Brunel – looked at CERIF for benchmarking and HESA returnsIRIOS at Sunderland – CERIF for importing information from the research councils The cost can be more than offset by efficiency savings.Business case for CERIF:(http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2010/businesscasefinalreport.aspx) Headline figures: institutions spend £85 million each year submitting and monitoring grant applications to research councils the RAE 2008 Accountability Review reported a sector cost of £47,335,706 or £1,127 per researcher submitted.Depending on the activity, this report projects savings of between 25% and 30%
- #8 We Believe:Research information is often scattered across an institution: In systems that often can’t talk to one another efficiently, e.g.grant management in the finance office;a publications database in the research office;a repository in the library. JISC has been working with other agencies to define what needs to be done to improve research information management. (The Research Information Management Group’s members include HEFCE, HESA, the RCs, Wellcome, UCISA, ARMA, as well as centres of expertise.)What we are doingISC has developed extensive resources to help you implement a new system and work out the cost savings of adopting the European standard for research information.JISC has developed extensive resources to help you implement a new system and work out the cost savings of adopting the European standard for research information.In the future:4 projects are due to report on 20th September at an event focussed on sharing their findings on research reporting. This will feed into the existing infoKit http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/research that considers better methods of extracting and sharing research information. We’re also leading on work, due to finish in Spring 2012, to create a modular research information management system as a shared service.The RMAS project (http://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/rmas/) is a collaborative venture between the Universities of Exeter, Kent, and Sunderland to procure, develop and implement a cloud-based research management and administration system
- #9 Why should Universities be collaborating with businesses and community organisations?By deploying research expertise in collaborations with businesses (both public and private sector) and community organisations, institutions deliver direct benefit to the economy and wider society, gain knowledge and insight, enhance their reputations and earn revenue. Digital technologies can help institutions exploit their knowledge assets. Institutions can market their expertise online, find appropriate partners, manage collaborations and share resources JISC has developed a set of tools to help institutions promote their research expertise online, enabling universities to benchmark themselves, internally and against others, in their use of digital channels for communication and collaboration. Another JISC set of resources - online collaborative tools -provides extensive guidance and advice for effective virtual collaboration.Customer relationship management (CRM) processes and systems enable institutions to manage and co-ordinate their interactions with externals and develop vital business intelligence. JISC has developed a CRM Self-analysis Framework to help institutions develop their CRM capabilities.However, working with external partners needs to be managed within the context of an institution-wide strategy for engaging with business and the community.http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/tools/research-expertiseWe believe:With an engagement strategy in place, JISC’s extensive advice and guidance can help you choose the best approach and online tools to manage all aspects of your research collaboration with business and community partners. JISC can also help you manage the legal aspects of engagement with business and other external sectors
- #10 For the future:JISC is funding innovative projects for institutions to lead local provision of integrated information services online (for SMEs and other externals) and open innovation marketplaces for the co-development of ideas. Good practice from the first set of demonstrators will be available in October 2011. In summer 2012, JISC will provide a comprehensive Online CRM Handbook for HE and FE, informed by the experience of more than twenty funded institutional CRM projects.
- #11 Why should Universities be thinking about improving research data management? 1. Research integrity.This one-day conference has been convened to discuss the issues of research integrity and research data management. And for good reason. It is good practice in research, a key component of research integrity, to make available, to share the data, the evidence upon which research conclusions are based. The scientific method, after all, is based upon the verification of results. This is made clear in the UK Research Integrity Office's 'Code of Practice for Research'.Due regard must be paid to privacy, confidentiality and ethical issues. But the presumption is that research data should be retained and preserved for a reasonable period and made available for other researchers.2. Research Funder PoliciesNationally and internationally, research funders have become increasingly aware of the importance of research data. This relates to research integrity but also to the value proposition for data reuse. Funders are increasingly convinced - and with good reason - that making research data available for reuse benefits research, allows new research and brings a greater return on the original investment. For example, earlier this year the number of research papers based upon secondary usages of data fro the Hubble Space Telescope overtook those based on the initially proposed use. The lessons drawn from astronomy, from genomics and increasingly from various areas of medical and health research are applicable to other disciplines: notably social sciences, environmental sciences, chemistry and crystallography, and across the board. All UK Research Councils - with the exception of STFC - now have policies covering retention and availability of research data, as do many large charitable funders.These policies have been helpfully summarised by the DCC: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/overview-funders-data-policies RCUK has released a Policy covering Common Principles on Research Data which declares that 'Publicly funded research data are a public good, produced in the public interest, which should be made openly available with as few restrictions as possible in a timely and responsible manner that does not harm intellectual property.'http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/DataPolicy.aspx In this respect UK is at the forefront of an international movement: Many policy statements reference the 2007 OECD Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/9/61/38500813.pdf NSF recently added the requirement of a data management plan to grant proposals: http://www.arl.org/rtl/eresearch/escien/nsf/index.shtml Health Research Funders’‘Joint Statement of Purpose: Sharing research data to improve public health’: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Data-sharing/Public-health-and-epidemiology/WTDV030690.htm 3. Freedom of Information / Environmental Information Regulations Unless exemptions apply, data produced by publicly funded research in universities will be subject to FoI / EIR legislation and must be made available. Well publicised cases show that that Universities need to be well informed and operate good practice in relation to FoI or EIR requests for research data. Such cases are certainly on the increase. JISC has provided guidance for researchers on Freedom of Information and research data: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2010/foiresearchdata.aspx 4. Benefits of Research Data Management and Reuse As Research Funder policies recognise, the benefits of making research data available for verification and reuse are becoming clear. There is an increasingly persuasive value proposition for data intensive research, for meta studies and for the integration of diverse datasets for interdisciplinary study.(A good example is the JISC-funded HALOGEN project which provides a database integrating various research datasets - archaeological, linguistic, toponymic and genetic - to support research into historical migration patterns: http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/itservices/resources/cs/pso/project-websites/halogen) With the Research Information Network, JISC commissioned a study which examined the use, value and impact of data centres. The report contributes to the growing body of evidence to improve data sharing practice.http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/data-management-and-curation/benefits-research-data-centres Projects in the JISC Managing Research Data Programme gathered evidence for projected benefits resulting from the RDM systems, infrastructure, guidance and training they developed. These are summarised in a report from Neil Beagrie and a briefing paper 'Making the Case for Research Data Management' from the DCC. The benefits identified include:37% Projected saving in staff time from moving Oxford University Classics Dept database to centralised virtual serviceOne-day delay cut to 5 minutes Estimated time saving for crystallography researchers to access results from Diamond synchrotron, by deploying digital processing pipeline & metadata capture system Making the Case for Research Data Management, Jonathan Tedds (University of Leicester and Angus Whyte, DCC): URL TBCBenefits from the Infrastructure Projects in the JISC Managing Research Data Programme, Neil Beagrie: URL TBC
- #12 Challenges for Institutions: what JISC is doing to help Despite the apparent benefits, improving research data management to respond to the drivers identified represents a considerable challenge for most UK universities. How can institutions support researchers in responding to funder requirements?How can Universities develop and inculcate best practice?What planning and management systems can be used to remove excessive burden from researchers?Where and how should the data be stored?What data should be retained and what discarded?What security, ethical and privacy issues need to be considered? These are challenges that UK Universities will need to confront in order to stay nationally and internationally competitive.
- #13 What JISC is doing to help JISC Programmes and Services are targeting a number of key areas to help UK Universities. JISC has made significant investment across three areas of activity: Digital Curation CentreManaging Research Data ProgrammeUniversity Modernisation Fund Shared Services and the Cloud Programme 1. Digital Curation CentreWe fund the Digital Curation Centre, a centre of expertise in curating digital research data.The DCC provides advice and guidance in a number of forms including in-depth studies, briefing papers, how-to guides and planning tools. 2. Managing Research Data ProgrammeThe first programme ran from 2009-11; the second will run from October 2011- March 2013.The programme covers guidance and policy materials, RDM systems and infrastructure, training, as well as solutions for data citation and publication.http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd.aspxhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd/outputs.aspx 3. UMF Shared Services and the Cloud ProgrammeThe Shared IT Infrastructure strand will provide a brokerage for cloud services, tools from the DCC and applications - designed to be delivered as Software as a Service - to help researchers manage data. How is JISC helping institutions?Guidance Materials and Policy DevelopmentTraining MaterialsResearch Data Management PlanningRDM Systems and Infrastructure 1. Guidance Materials and Policy DevelopmentJISC-funded projects have produced very useful, accessible guidance and support for researchers at Oxford, Cambridge and Glasgowhttp://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dataman/http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/datamanagement/ The UK Data Archive has recently revised its very useful Managing and Sharing Data - Best Practice Guide for Researchers, in part as a result of work undertaken by the JISC-funded Data Management Planning for ESRC Research Data-rich Investments Project (DMP-ESRC)http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news-events/news.aspx?id=2852[Note first edition received JISC funding, second edition built on project work and has preface by Simon Hodson] [Encouraged by the DCC and a series of JISC projects, ] the Universities of Edinburgh has developed a Research Data Management Policy and the University of Oxford has made a statement of commitment to RDM.See http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal/institutional-data-policiesEdinburgh: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/about/policies-and-regulations/research-data-policyOxford: http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/odit/projects/datamanagement/[Note: these are not direct outputs of JISC projects, but they have been heavily influenced - Chris Rusbridge drafted the Edinburgh policy and it was influenced by DCC and project work; the Oxford commitment acknowledges a long line of JISC-funded projects…] Seventeen projects to be funded by the second MRD programme, starting in October will develop and seek approval for institutional RDM policies. DCC Roadshows. The DCC is running a series of roadshows to present best practice and to showcase new tools and resources.Send someone along!http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/data-management-roadshows 2. Training MaterialsA number of JISC funded projects have produced tailored and targeted RDM training materials for researchers and PG students in a number of subject areas:Humanities: http://sudamih.oucs.ox.ac.uk/documents.xmlMicroscopy: http://dmbi.nbi.bbsrc.ac.uk/index.php/OMEROWorkshopPerformance and visual arts: http://www.projectcairo.org/module/unit1-0.htmlArchaeology: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/learning/DataTrainSocial Anthropology: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dataman/datatrain/socanthintro.htmlHealth Studies: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/themes/rmarea/datum/ [TBC]Psychology: http://www.dmtpsych.york.ac.uk/s.php?p=12Social Science, Clinical Psychology and Geosciences: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/about/organisation/edl/data-library-projects/mantra/deliverables 3. Research Data Management PlanningTools and guidance have been produced to help institutions and researchers with data management planning, as is increasingly required by research funders. The DCC have created a widely praised DMP Online tool as well as supporting guidance: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/dmponline The DCC have also developed CARDIO, a benchmarking tool to assess data management requirements, activity, and capacity at your institution (to give your institution or department an RDM 'healthcheck': http://www.dcc.ac.uk/projects/cardio/collaborative-assessment-research-data-infrastrucutre-and-objectives-cardio[This will be the subject of a JISC inform feature in November, a 'health-check quiz'] JISC-funded projects have produced guidance and model data management plans for a number of subject areas:Engineering: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/erim/Social Sciences: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/projects/JISC-DMP?index=0 The DCC have produced a new ‘How-To’ Guide on developing a data management plan: URL TBC 4. RDM Systems and Infrastructure A number of JISC projects have developed RDM platforms. For example: The MaDAM Project at the University of Manchester developed a prototype research data management platform for researchers in the life-sciences: http://www.merc.ac.uk/?q=MaDAM The FISHnet Project developed a platform for research data curation and sharing in freshwater biology: http://www.fishnetonline.org/home The UMF SaaS Projects are building on pilots from JISC projects to develop applications for research data management which can be run from virtual servers 'in the cloud' and can form the basis for a national shared RDM infrastructure: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/umf.aspx These include: The DataFlow project, a two-tier system for RDM and transfer of data to a repository: http://www.dataflow.ox.ac.uk/index.php/project-reports/progress-blog The VIDaaS project developing tools for researchers to build, edit and share databases in a cloud computing environment: http://vidaas.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ The SRF project providing electronic lab notebooks, lab management and collaboration tools: URL TBC The BRISSkit project developing a platform for managing biomedical research data: URL TBC
- #14 CONCLUSION Many of the links to the tools toolkits and resources that I have and mentioned as well as the many many more that I have not had time to mention are available on our website Today we intend to share much of our thinking and outputs for this work with you as well as develop direction from you for our future work. We hope that in exploring the issues at the heart of the conference we can demonstrate the range of practical measures and guidance that have been developed in collaboration UK Universities and partners. For more information about JISC research programmes and links to the many useful toolkits and briefing papers and a range of advice and guidance visit: WWW.JISC.AC.UK
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