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Jisc has joined the OPERAS Research Infrastructure as a core member, representing the United Kingdom. Core members represent and help organize the national activities of their countries. At the same time, they have equal voting rights. The OPERAS core group has unanimously decided on Jisc as the new core member for the United Kingdom.Jisc will be particularly involved in the OPERAS Open Access Business Models Working Group, drawing from its experiences and the work of Jisc Collections, which will be the contact point for this working group.“I am very pleased to be joining the OPERAS Core Group on behalf of Jisc. As a trusted neutral organisation in the UK, many of the UK members of OPERAS are based at Jisc’s member institutions. In addition, the work of OPERAS fits in well with our current activity supporting a transition to Open Access monographs.”Graham Stone, Senior Research Manager at Jisc (CC BY 4.0)Jisc is anot-for-profit providing the UK’s national research and education network,Janet, and technology solutions for its members – colleges, universities andresearch centres. It is funded by the UK higher and further education andresearch funding bodies and member institutions.Jisc does three main things for its members:Operates and develops the super-fast and secure Janet Network and its built-incyber security protection.Helps save time and money by negotiating sector-wide deals with IT vendorsand commercial publishers.Provides trusted advice and practical assistance on digital technology.Jisc’svision is for the UK to be the most digitally advanced education and researchnation in the world.&#160;“We welcome and are grateful to Jisc for its strategic decision to join the OPERAS Core Group where it will represent the United Kingdom. This move is particularly important as OPERAS counts 6 partners from the UK, amongst the most active in the development of innovative scholarly communication services for the social sciences and humanities. Scientific communities rely on research infrastructures to provide stable and steady services in spite of any kind of turbulence or uncertainty that can happen at other levels. For that reason, OPERAS and Jisc will work together to make sure that free circulation of knowledge across borders will continue to be a reality, in Europe and worldwide." Pierre Mounier (OpenEdition), Co-coordinater of OPERAS (CC BY 4.0)The OPERAS core group will next meet in Marseille on 5 June 2019 todiscuss and decide on OPERAS future strategic governance. The researchinfrastructure is currently preparing a transition to a legal entity as aninternational non profit-making association (AISBL). It currently has 40 partnerorganizations and is coordinated by 9 strategic core members:Croatia (University of Zadar)France (OpenEdition)Germany (Max Weber Stiftung)Greece (National Documentation Centre)Italy (University of Turin)Netherlands (OAPEN)Poland (Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences)Portugal (University of Coimbra)United Kingdom (Jisc)Map of OPERAS partners. CC By 4.0.