One of the recommendations that came out of the meeting about Data Citation our Expert Group had this spring was that Jisc should engage more with the “Data Citation Implementation Pilot“. This voluntary grouping runs as a sub-group of the Force11 collaboration, and is funded by the NIH as a part of the ongoing BioCaddie data … Read more

It’s May! – and this may be the last post I write about our IRUS-based download project as an “alpha” as we edge ever closer to the “beta” stage. But I just wanted to start by highlighting the much earlier-stage citation work – energised by a recent meeting you may have seen two blog posts … Read more

(a guest post from Cameron Neylon, Curtin University) As research moves onto the web many of us are publishing and sharing our research data. As soon as we think of online as data as being published researchers are concerned about how how it going to be cited. Some researchers are even concerned about how to … Read more

Here are the slides from the webinar about IRUSdataUK on 24th Feb. A recording is also available – note that this will play via the Blackboard Collaborate platform. A very similar session, with a live demo and more chance for questions and discussion, will be held at DigiFest16 on day 1. If you are in … Read more

IRUS-UK has long been one of the stars in the Jisc service portfolio – offering a simple service (reliable COUNTER-compliant repository download metrics) to just under one hundred UK research repositories. IRUS is a platform-neutral service that allows reliable comparison and benchmarking between ePrints, dSpace and Fedora  based repositories – with more being added on an as-needed basis. The service has allowed institutions and repository managers … Read more