Recent national and international mandates and reports seek to promote an open research infrastructure which facilitates easy access to knowledge and information for all. For example, The UK Open Research Data Task Force report, released in February 2019, recommends user-friendly services for research data management and infrastructure to maximise interoperability and discoverability. Jisc has built the Open Research Hub (JORH), which integrates a repository, preservation, reporting and storage platform. This cloud-based service is a community governed, multi-tenant solution for universities and other research institutions to manage, store, preserve and share their published research data. Based on existing open standards, the service’s open and extensive data model incorporates best practice from across the sector, including DataCite, CrossRef, CERIF, Dublin Core and PREMIS. While the Hub was built to address the needs of research data curation, its adoption of open, best practice standards means it has the potential to allow the service to handle a much wider range of digital research objects, including Open Access articles, theses and software. The data model, rich messaging layer and an open API facilitate interoperability with other institutional and scholarly communications systems. This provides the potential for the Hub to underpin infrastructure capable of meeting the requirements of an ever-evolving open research agenda. This talk will introduce some of the key initiatives seeking to shape open research infrastructure and discuss how the Hub’s current and future development is directed towards facilitating open research best practice. Consideration will be given to how the Hub either meets or can meet recent recommendations such as FAIR, Plan S, ORDTF and the COAR’s Next Generation Repositories.

1. The Jisc Open Research Hub 4 June, 2019
and its role in open research infrastructure

2. #JiscRDM2
Who are Jisc?
Jisc is the UK higher,further education and
skills sectors’ not-for-profit organisation for
digital servicesand solutions
Operateshared digital
infrastructure and
services
Provide trusted adviceand
practical assistancefor
universities, colleges and
learning providers
We…
Negotiate sector-wide deals
and conditionswith IT vendors
and commercial publishers

3. A key challenge for universities
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The current ‘open research’ agenda is important to universities:
Repository Preservatiion Reporting

4. A shared service
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Input from
>70 UK
universities
Multi -
content
Modular
and inter-
operable
Reporting
Compliance
Ease the
digital
preservation
pain
Enhanced
UX
Community
led
Cost
effective
A single solution to meet the
requirements for univers ities to
enable better management, s
haring and preservation of
research outputs

5. Jisc Open Research Hub
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https://Jisc.ac.uk/open-research-hub

6. Service Data Model
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https ://github.com/JiscRDSS/rdss
-canonical-data-model

7. Sector policies and good practice - data
Sungya Pundir, Wikimedia Commons, CC By-SA 4.0
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8. FAIR data
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https://www.go-
fair.org/fair-principles/

9. A FAIR submission?
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https://zenodo.org/record/2619357

10. Continual development and delivery
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https ://res earchdata.jis cinvolve.org/
wp/2 019/05/22/going-off-road/
https ://blog.cris p.s e/2016/01/25/henrikkniberg/making-sense-of-mvp

11. Sector mandates and good practice - OA
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12. OA repository reqs? (Plan-S; COAR NGR; UK guidance)
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 Diversity of resources  Open APIs  Machine friendly
 Resource centric  Networked  Versioning
 Sustainable  Distributed governance  Public good
 Helpdesk  Continuous availability  Accessible
 Full text stored in XML in
JATS standard (or
equivalent)
 Common behaviours,
functionalities and
standards
 Automatic exchange
between publishers and
institutions
 Quality assured
metadata in standard
interoperable format
 Automated manuscript
ingest facility
 Promoting a range of
unique identifiers (eg
ORCID)

13. Research data lifecycle & Open research hub scope
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14. ORH and the active research life cycle?
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 DMPs
 Open science platforms
 E-lab notebooks
 Active data storage
 Practice research
 Reproducibility

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