Mainly of interest to UK folk, but perhaps more widely too:
Jisc is conducting a feasibility study into the “Open Mirror”, which would provide access for the world to the open access research outputs from UK researchers. It would be an aggregation of all UK Open Access content, based upon the network of institutional repositories in the UK. It might support better discovery and access, text-mining, business continuity, management information and preservation services.
The current work is a feasibility study, implying no commitment by Jisc to proceed; it is to assess how practical and valuable an Open Mirror might be. The study runs to December 2013. It is a Jisc co-design project, in partnership with our co-design partners, principally Research Libraries UK and SCONUL representing the library community, but also UCISA and RUGIT, representing IT directors.
If you'd like to comment on the idea of the open mirror, please see the full blog post here:
http://openmirror.jiscinvolve.org/wp/author/neilj/
Best wishes
Neil
Neil Jacobs, Jisc. +44 (0)784 1951303
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