Publishers action group
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The Group stimulated discussion and action concerning the range of JISC activities that are relevant to the publishing and e-content industry. It was intended that the Group input into relevant areas of work that the JISC is currently undertaking that are of interest to a range of publishers. And informed JISC of activities undertaken by publishers; and the environments through which these are accessed by the higher educational and research community.
The definition of ‘publisher’ for this group included content providers and covered books, journals, images, time based media, geospatial resources and other research data, and learning materials.
Membership
The membership of the Group was designed to represent a cross section of representatives from libraries, publishers and content providers and the JISC Executive. Publishers and content providers were primarily selected on the basis that they represented umbrella bodies or larger organisations.
See a full list of members
Current/recently completed work
User Behaviour Observational Study (Business and Economics)
User Behaviour Observational Study (Business and Economics) (Usage data)
Reporting
The Group reports to JISC through the JISC Content Services sub-committee and the report that sub-committee presents to the JISC Board.
Meetings
The Group meet three times a year. Meetings to date have been held on:
9th December 2009
28th January 2009
25th September 2008
11th June 2008
13th February 2008
Related groups
JISC Scholarly Communications Working Group on matters relating to Open Access.
For further information contact Catherine Grout.