Professor David Maguire at the Stakeholder Forum

1. What we’ve been doing
Professor David Maguire, JiscChair and vice-chancellor, University of Greenwich
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2. Jisc in financial year 2015/16
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Janet network traffic
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Doubled the core bandwidth in 2016

4. Reduce costs and increase collaboration
»Shared Datacentre (South)
› 15 participants, four in pipeline
› eMedlab and Medbio projects
»Procurement frameworks with
favourable cloud solutions
Cloud computing
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Amazon Web Services
File Sync and Share
Data Archiving
Google Apps
Microsoft Office 365

5. Safeguarding your current and future computer security
» Cyber security mitigation: already mitigated huge attacks
› Major technology upgrade
› Increased ability to respond to cyber attacks
› Cyber Security Incident ResponseTeam
» Certificate Service: protect confidential data
» Web filtering Service: web appropriate for your organisation
» Tailored In-houseTraining Expertise and Advice:
› 2016 conference, courses & online facilitated training
› Development of in-house expertise
› Trusted environments – enabling peers to discuss & share sensitive topics
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6. Affordable access to content and services
» 250+ licence agreements covering over 400
subscriptions
› Renegotiated Elsevier ScienceDirectAgreement
» Negotiations cover expenditure of £108m
› 45% of total sector spend on e-content (c£220m)
› Savings in 2016 of c£105m
» +208 million downloads of full text articles from
publishers in 2016
» +1 million alerts automatically sent about journal
content via Zetoc
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7. Providing affordable access to content and services
Providing rich digital collections and resources that support and
enhance research, teaching and learning
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8. Helping you realise the benefits of open access
» We’ve launched:
› Monitor local – easily record and report
open access compliance and cost
› Publications router –
populate institutional repositories
» Use of IRUS-UK increased covers 80% of
institutional repositories
Open access support services
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9. Providing advice, assistance and training
» Offered to all colleges
» Jisc on 35 / 37 steering group
kick-off meetings
» Technology ReviewTool:
advice / reports to 71 colleges
» +5200 contacts with colleges
» Core staff spent +3500 hours
supporting colleges
Supporting FE area reviews
» 117 courses
» 1770 participants
Workshops for FE and HE to
Raise Awareness of Prevent
(WRAP)
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» Network and technology courses
» Digital leaders programme
» Making digital collections easier
to discover
And many more…

10. Enabling research with infrastructure services
» Janet network services
» OpenAccess support services
» Shared data centres
» Research data shared service
› Easily deposit data for publication,
discovery, safe storage, long term
archiving & preservation
The ELIXIR project (genome data)
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» European Molecular Biology
Laboratory, Hinxton, Cambridge
» Network of supercomputers
connected to the Janet core

11. Future
»Funding
»Rapid pace of technology
»Rising aspirations
Challenges
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12. ThankYou!
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13. jisc.ac.uk
Professor David Maguire
Jisc chair and vice-chancellor,
University of Greenwich
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