Standards and interoperability: how Jisc’s work supports reporting, communicating and measuring research in the UK research sector

Abstract

The UK research sector utilises a highly varied infrastructure of research information management platforms. To reduce the administrative burden of managing, reporting and evaluating research, it has become crucial to enable system-to-system communication. Jisc is the UK’s not-for-profit organisation supporting digital services and solutions in the UK research sector. Here, we describe the role Jisc has played in:

- Promoting interoperability to facilitate reliable and transparent research reporting;

- Supporting institutions to meet, manage and demonstrate compliance to funders’ open access policies;

- Supporting researchers and managers to assess the impact of research using open citation and download statistics.