08 May 2026
The recent announcement to retire Jisc Publications Router has prompted important conversations across the repositories community about how institutions currently relying on these workflows will continue identifying and managing newly published research outputs that have not yet been deposited in their repositories.
For repository teams, these workflows play an important role in maintaining comprehensive and timely institutional records of scholarly outputs while reducing the administrative burden placed on researchers and repository staff. Reliance on manual deposit workflows can create significant overheads for repository teams and make it more difficult for institutions to maintain a comprehensive scholarly record. In some institutions, automated deposit workflows also play an important role in supporting compliance with open access policies and related reporting requirements. As institutions review how these workflows will continue following the retirement of Publications Router, many are also considering what replacement infrastructure may emerge to support these processes in the future.