Joao Carlos Medau
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Rolls-Royce joins Jisc HPC initiative
Following the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills’ (BIS) Dowling Review into the complexity of current business- university collaborations – which recommends ‘as simple as possible’ interfaces between user and scheme that ‘hide the wiring’ – Jisc has welcomed Rolls-Royce as the first company to join its high performance computing (HPC) agreement. Through the brokerage scheme, Rolls-Royce will be awarded easy access to supercomputing equipment worth up to £60m, at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s (EPSRC) HPC Midlands. In addition, Rolls-Royce will also be taking advantage of a connection to the Janet network, the high-speed network for UK education and research. Through Jisc’s Janet Reach scheme for industrial connectivity – which leverages £30m of public investment in ultra-fast internet and is supported by BIS – a network circuit operating at 10 gigabits per second will be
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installed by Jisc, so that it is able to fully-exploit the HPC centre. Rolls-Royce’s HPC lead, Yoon Ho, said: ‘For many years now we have worked with universities and colleges across the UK and internationally, and we partner with a number of institutions on research and development through our University Technology Centres. This agreement was a natural next step to explore sharing facilities more broadly. ‘We have been impressed by the professional approach that Jisc and HPC Midlands
have taken to this project, in particular around our tough information security and export control requirements, and we see a very bright future for our collaboration.’
Jeremy Sharp, Jisc’s director of strategic technologies, added: ‘It is no longer the case that academia and industry operate in separate, parallel worlds. ‘In an environment where resources are increasingly constrained, both sectors need to understand how they can work more closely together and learn from one another.’
New CUP open access policy ‘prevents double-dipping’
Cambridge University Press is launching a policy to prevent charging both authors and subscribers for open access journal content (so-called double-dipping). Matthew Day, head of open and data publishing at Cambridge University Press, said; ‘We believe that double-dipping is wrong and we want to be clear about how we are preventing it.’ The new policy discounts 2016 subscription prices for journals that have received
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open access (OA) article processing charges (APCs) from authors in the last full journal volume (that is, in 2014). If the fraction of OA articles in a journal was at least five per cent and the income from APCs was at least £5,000, then the Press is discounting renewed subscriptions by the lower of the percentage OA or the percentage APC income. All open access articles are included, except those in supplements published
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in addition to a volume’s subscription content. Subscribers already receiving a substantial discount on a journal’s subscription price, via a consortium package for example, will not receive an additional discount on their collection access fee as a result of these changes.
CUP says the effect of the policy is that the renewal prices for six hybrid journals are being reduced by between 2.6 per cent and 7.7 per cent.
ORCID, a researcher identifier solution that enables a wide range of improvements to the scholarly communications ecosystem, will now be offered to UK higher education institutions through a national consortium arrangement operated by Jisc, a UK charity promoting the use of technology within education and research. The agreement, negotiated by Jisc Collections, will enable universities to benefit from reduced ORCID membership costs and enhanced technical support. This is aimed at accelerating adoption and provide a smoother path to ORCID integration for UK universities – and, ultimately, to help transform the management, re-use, and efficiency of the UK research output by improving the integration of research systems and processes, and enhancing data quality.
More than 50 UK universities have expressed an interest in joining an ORCID consortium in 2015, with a further 22 saying they intend to join at a later stage. Rachel Bruce, deputy chief innovation officer at Jisc, said: ‘Previously it has not been possible to easily associate valuable research outputs – be they patents or papers – with their authors, collaborators and institutions. This has led to extremely inefficient research management and difficulty in identifying what has been produced.
‘The result? Ineffective reporting and sharing of research, which impacts on both individual researcher’s and universities’ profiles. Wider adoption and use of ORCID is the solution, helping the UK continue to deliver a first-class research system and offering other benefits, such as additional cost savings and efficiencies.’
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