Preparing for the research excellence framework: Examples of open access good practice across the United Kingdom

Serials Librarian

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 96-111

  DeGroff, Hannah ^a  

^a Joint Information Systems Committee   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Advocacy; Open access; Workflows

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIBRARY; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84980030863     PISSN: 0361526X     EISSN: 15411095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2016.1196634     Document Type: Article

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1. S. Kerridge and P. Ward, "Open Access for REF2020." Insights 27, no. 1 (2014): 59. doi: http://doi.org/10.1629/ 2048-7754.115.
2. The Jisc guide is available here: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/complying-with-research-funders-open-accesspolicies (accessed March 23, 2016).
3. J. Emery and G. Stone, "The Sound of the Crowd: Using Social Media to Develop Best Practices for Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians (OAWAL)," Collaborative Librarianship 6, no. 3 (2014): 107.
4. For summaries of the benefits of OA see: http://sparceurope.org/open-access/benefits-of-open-access/ and http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/sites/pasteur4oa/files/resource/Brief_OA%20and%20knowledge%20transfer%20to% 20the%20private%20sector.pdf (accessed March 23, 2016).
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6. The Pathfinder projects are part of a community-based support initiative involving 30 HEIs, the primary focus being the development of good practice in OA implementation. For more information, including links to the different projects, please see: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/open-access-good-practice
7. The OAGP blog is available here: http://openaccess.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ (both accessed March 25, 2016).
8. For information about the consultation process please see: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2013/201316/ (accessed March 25, 2016).
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10. Aucock, "Managing Open Access (OA) Workflows at the University of St Andrews," 275. For details of REF 2014 please see: http://www.ref.ac.uk/ (accessed on March 25, 2016).
11. HEFCE, Open Access in the Next Research Excellence Framework: Policy Adjustments and Aualifications, Circular letter 20/2015 (July 2015), 2.
12. HEFCE, Policy for Open Access in the Post-2014 Research Excellence Framework, HEFCE 2014/07 (March 2014, updated July 2015), 1.
13. See, for example, Torsten Reimer’s post on Imperial College London’s OA and Digital Scholarship blog (dated March 2, 2016): https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/blog/openaccess/2016/03/02/how-compliant-are-we-with-hefcesref-open-access-policy-why-open-access-reporting-is-difficult-part-2/ (accessed March 23, 2016).
14. HEFCE, Policy for Open Access in the Post-2014 Research Excellence Framework, 5.
15. To see Crossref’s guidelines for publishers see: https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc/blob/master/funder_kpi_metadata_best_practice.md (accessed March 25, 2016).
16. HEFCE, Policy for Open Access in the Post-2014 Research Excellence Framework, 6-8. Points 37-41 in the policy.
17. Details of the findings can be seen on the Pathways to OA blog here: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/2015/ 12/21/ref-exceptions/ (accessed March 23, 2016).
18. The summary follows on from a workshop held by UCL in early 2016, details of which can be found on the UCL blog post (dated February 4, 2016) here: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/ (accessed March 23, 2016).
19. HEFCE, Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework, 6.
20. For a summary of the workshop see UCL blog post dated February 4, 2016: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/ (accessed March 23, 2016).
21. Taken from the FAQs section of HEFCE’s OA webpages: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/rsrch/oa/FAQ/#deposit3 (accessed March 25, 2016).
22. See Reimer’s blog post from 21 March 21, 2016 here: http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/blog/openaccess/ (accessed March 25, 2016).
23. See Reimer’s post on the Imperial College London blog dated March 2, 2016: https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/blog/openaccess/2016/03/02/how-compliant-are-we-with-hefces-ref-open-access-policy-why-open-access-reportingis-difficult-part-2/ (accessed March 25, 2016).
24. Details can be found on the UCL blog post dated December 21, 2015: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/2015/ 12/21/ref-exceptions/ (accessed March 25, 2016).
25. Taken from the UCL blog post dated February 4, 2016, which summaries the REF workshop held on January 25, 2016: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/ (accessed March 25, 2016).
26. C. Banks, "Focusing Upstream: Supporting Scholarly Communication by Academics." Insights 29, no. 1: (2016), 40. doi:http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.292
27. The case studies can be found in a Northumbria and Sunderland’s Pathfinder blog post dated December 18, 2015: https://oapathfinder.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/oa-good-practice-what-weve-learned-so-far/ (accessed March 23, 2016).
28. Details of these outputs can be found on the Pathfinder project blogs. opeNWorks: https://blog.openworks.library.manchester.ac.uk/
29. Pathways to OA: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/
30. LOCH: http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/loch/ (both accessed March 25, 2016).
31. Taken from the HHuLOA blog post dated February 5, 2015: https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/hhuloa/2015/02/ 05/open-access-baseline-activity-tool/ (accessed March 20, 2016).
32. CIAO is available here: https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/695b9555-c2f4-4aae-9107-176fa04531b4/1/ (accessed March 20, 2016).
33. Taken from the Making Sense of OA blog post dated March 17, 2015: http://sensemakingopenaccess.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/making-sense-project-update-march-2015.html (accessed March 20, 2016).
34. For more information about the schema see the Jisc Scholarly Communications blog post dated 30 November 2015: https://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/11/30/a-schema-for-open-access-policies/ (accessed March 23, 2016).
35. The diagrams are available via the HHuLOA blog here: https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/hhuloa/2015/12/02/new-oa-life-cycles-for-comment/ (accessed March 20, 2016).
36. Emery and Stone, "The Sound of the Crowd," 110.
37. Aucock, "Managing Open Access (OA) Workflows at the University of St Andrews," 276.
38. The report is available here: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6430 (accessed March 20, 2016).
39. The project also released a survey to the community in January 2016 to collect data on a broader scale. The case studies are being added to the opeNWorks blog here: https://blog.openworks.library.manchester.ac.uk/ (accessed March 25, 2016).
40. The responsibility matrix template can be downloaded from here: http://find.jorum.ac.uk/resources/10949/ 19971 (accessed March 20, 2016).
41. The draft job description is available here: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10016 (accessed March 20, 2016).
42. The guide is available here: http://www.openworks.online/guide/ (accessed March 20, 2016).
43. The interactive help page is available here: http://www.openworks.online/ask-an-oa-colleague/ (accessed March 20, 2016).
44. The toolkit can be accessed here: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/files/2015/06/Advocacy-toolkit.pdf (accessed March 25, 2016).
45. For further information about how UK institutions manage their OA funds see the report "Institutional Policies on the use of Open Access Funds," produced by the Pathways to OA Pathfinder project. It is available here:http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/files/2015/12/Pathways-to-OA-APC-funds-survey-report-Dec-15.pdf (accessed March 25, 2016).
46. Details of these outputs can be found on the GW4 Pathfinder project blog: https://gw4openaccess.wordpress.com/ (accessed March 25, 2016).
47. More information can be found here: https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Global/News%20files%20and%20docs/Principles-for-offset-agreements.pdf (accessed March 25, 2016).
48. More information about this project can be found here: https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Jisc-Monitor/APC-data-collection/ (accessed March 25, 2016).
49. The workflows can be downloaded here: http://find.jorum.ac.uk/resources/10949/20070 (accessed March 25, 2016).
50. Details of the tool and access to it is via the Northumbria and Sunderland Pathfinder project blog post dated July 6, 2015: https://oapathfinder.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/cost-modelling-tool-now-available/ (accessed March 25, 2016).
51. V. McCutcheon and M. Eadie, "Managing Open Access with EPrints Software: A Case Study." Insights. 29, no. 1 (2016): 46-47. doi:http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.277
52. Taken from a Northumbria and Sunderland Pathfinder project blog post (dated September 15, 2015): https://oapathfinder.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/open-access-and-the-research-excellence-framework-workshop/ (accessed March 25, 2016).
53. The training documentation is available here: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10021 (accessed March 20, 2016).
54. Aucock, "Managing Open Access (OA) Workflows at the University of St Andrews," 275.
55. MIAO is available here: https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/eff183b2-c6be-4e9a-8a69-3fa750888ea6/1/ (accessed March 20, 2016).
56. This work led to the development of Intervention Mapping Guide for understanding researcher behaviour. The report is available here: http://blogs.coventry.ac.uk/researchblog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/12/O2OA-Needs-Assessment-report-FINAL-v2.pdf. The guide is here: http://blogs.coventry.ac.uk/researchblog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2015/10/O2OA-Intervention-mapping-output-Oct-15.pdf (both accessed March 25, 2016).
57. The flowchart can be downloaded here: http://find.jorum.ac.uk/resources/20118 (accessed March 25, 2016).
58. This material is available here: https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/dc3f974a-5e8e-4ce7-96c4-91c88569b4a4/1/ (accessed March 20, 2016).
59. The tool homepage is here: http://northumbriauniversity.libsurveys.com/loader.php?id=ee085006d d685e37606384a3febc2b80 (accessed March 20, 2016).
60. A. Swan and C. Sutton, "Sustainability of an OA Infrastructure," in Earney, L., ed., "Open Access Infrastructure" issue, Information Standards Quarterly 26, no. 2 (2014): 13.
61. Taken from an End-to-End OA Pathfinder project blog post (dated August 14, 2014): http://e2eoa.org/2014/08/ 14/repository-fringe-part-3/ (accessed March 25, 2016).