Jisc Open Research Hub – Supporting Open Scholarship

Jisc's Open Research Hub integrates a number of repository, preservation, reporting and storage platforms as a one stop shop for researchers and research managers. The service offers both open source and proprietary systems and allows data and metadata to be shared openly if required. The platform has been developed through years-long consultation with the UK HE research sector and sector bodies, along with contributions from both in-house Jisc and third-party experts. The need for such a solution has arisen from the sector's desires to achieve several, shared aims, including: greater collaboration; tackling the reproducibility crisis; enabling better research; and meeting funder requirements. Jisc's custom-built repository—the Open Research Repository—is part of the Jisc Open Research Hub. It's built upon an extensive data model and rich messaging layer, providing users with a clean, simple, and easy-to-learn interface for the deposit, approval, and discovery of a range of outputs. Jisc's position in the UK higher education / research sector, as well as the scale of the service provides us with many domain-specific insights to share with OR2019 delegates, ranging from the broad methods mentioned above, down to individual design decisions informed by our research and domain expertise.