by Angela Hilton

1. Monitor Services: December 2017 update08/12/2017
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Angela Hilton

2. Monitor Services
»Monitor Services consists of two distinct but connected products
› Monitor Local
› Monitor UK
»Primary aims are to help institutions with the processing ofAPCs
while working towards providing a national picture of the true cost
of Open Access
»Monitor Local allows institutions to record and monitor APC data
at a local level
»Monitor UK aggregates the data collected in Monitor Local to
provide a national level view ofAPC data
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3. Monitor Services
»More information on Monitor Services: https://monitor.jisc.ac.uk
»Monitor Local
»URL: https://monitorlocal.jisc.ac.uk
»Current version and release notes:
https://monitor.jisc.ac.uk/local/release-notes
»Monitor UK
»URL: https://monitoruk.jisc.ac.uk
»Email us to register
»Went live in November 2017
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4. Monitor Local: Our first year
»Completion of the transition to service and the handover to the OA
Development team October 16 to present
› Took longer than expected
› Development now 100% within Jisc
»Set up the Monitor User Group (April 2017)
› Open to existing users of the service (at the moment)
› Gives us priorities for the coming 6/12 month period
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5. Monitor Local: Our first year
»Rapid development of the service
› From v1.0 to v1.7
› V1.8 in the pipeline, due Jan 2018
› Complete interface overhaul
› Improvements in functionality
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6. Monitor Local
»Record data related to Article Processing
› People
–Academics
› Financial
–Invoices
–Grants
–Funder
–Budgets
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7. Monitor Local: Rep0rts
»Academic Outputs
› Report
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8. Monitor Local: Current version 1.6
»Major release
› 6 months of external development work
› Ability to produce the RCUK/COAF reports
› Pushes data from Monitor Local to Monitor UK
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9. Monitor UK
»November 2017: Finally live and in service
»Desperately needs someTLC
› New interface
› User/Stakeholder feedback and input required
› Ingest data not in Monitor Local
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10. Monitor UK
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»Aggregates data in Monitor Local to start to form a
national picture of APC spend [Data in… Data out]
› Publisher
› Funder
› Institution

11. Monitor: product timeline
»Phase 3 release: delivered November
2017
»Rollout: version 1.7 is built and due to be
deployed onto UAT; 1.8 is in current
development, due 2018
»M-UK: focus over the next 6 months
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V1.6
V1.7/8
M-UK

12. jisc.ac.uk
ThankYou
Angela Hilton
Scholarly communications services manager
OpenAccess Services
e: angela.hilton@jisc.ac.uk
t: @angehilton
w: monitor.jisc.ac.uk
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