Embedding OA within research practice: the HHuLOA JISC OA PathFinder project
- 1. Embedding OA within research practice The HHuLOA Jisc OA Pathfinder project Chris Awre, University of Hull Graham Stone, University of Huddersfield Northern Collaboration Conference, 10th September 2015 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
- 2. HHuLOA project • Hull, Huddersfield and Lincoln Open Access – https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/hhuloa/ • June 2014 – May 2016 • “The aim of this good practice project is to identify how open access support mechanisms can be used to assist with the development of research. Working together, the three institutions will explore this link, with the aim of supporting other institutions developing their research capacity and looking to understand how open access can be used as a means of supporting this.” HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 2
- 3. Tweeting #hhuloa HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 3
- 4. Jisc OA Pathfinders • HHuLOA is one of nine Jisc Open Access Pathfinder projects – http://openaccess.jiscinvolve.org/wp/pathfinder-projects/ • Others involved within Northern Collaboration include: – Northumbria / Sunderland – Newcastle – Lancaster – Manchester / Edge Hill / Liverpool John Moores / Liverpool / Salford • Aimed at: – Recognising OA work within institutions – Stimulating collaboration – Highlighting good practice – Preparing for the introduction of the HEFCE REF Open Access policy, April 2016 HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 4
- 5. Open access and research • Open access is aimed at: – Expanding audiences for research – Increasing the impact and benefit of research • Open access should be good for research development and reputation • Open access and research dissemination – Open access has always been an option • Many have chosen to make use of this – Open access is now a policy requirement • Aim is to maximise the advantages • How do academics and institutions make open access work for them? HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 5
- 6. Open access options • Green open access – Making use of an institutional (and/or other) repository for open dissemination via the repository and web search engines – How does an institution make its repository work for it? • Gold open access – Open access via an intermediary, most usually a publisher – Usually involves a fee – Article Processing Charge (APC) – How does an institution manage this approach? • Allocation of funds • Management of workflow HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 6
- 7. HHuLOA project 2 • The HHuLOA project has looked at open access from two perspectives – Getting our house in order so open access processes work • Capturing work in progress • Navigating funder policies • Identifying gaps and putting everything together in a lifecycle – Exploring how open access links into research development • Open access lifecycle from different stakeholder perspectives • Practicalities of how open access can be embedded in research • Open access and research strategy • Perspective of three institutions with developing research portfolios HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 7
- 8. HHuLOA areas of focus • Baseline capture of information – And progress from this baseline • Breakdown of funder open access policies – Navigation through this information • Open access lifecycle – Open access from start to finish • Technical development – RIOXX / REF metadata • Open access and research development – What can open access contribute? • Jisc Monitor / OA and library supply chain workflows HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 8
- 9. Baseline record template • Purpose – To capture information about practical open access issues – To share these through an open document – To encourage others to share their information – To draw out good practice based on community activity • Format – Google spreadsheet – CC-BY 4.0 licence – Information captured periodically • Six month intervals starting September 2014 – https://goo.gl/TpQnU4 HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 9
- 10. Areas covered • Systems • Workflow • Gold/green • Metadata • Policy • Staffing • Advocacy • Success stories • Issues • Open access development • Additional information HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 10
- 11. Participants so far • Hull • Huddersfield • Lincoln • Glasgow • Leeds Beckett • Queen Mary London • Keele • Bournemouth • Sussex • Cardiff • Northumbria • Teesside • Reading HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 11
- 12. Participants so far • Hull • Huddersfield • Lincoln • Glasgow • Leeds Beckett • Queen Mary London • Keele • Bournemouth • Sussex • Cardiff • Northumbria • Teesside • Reading HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 12
- 13. How can it be used? • Identify gaps in service provision based on what is happening elsewhere • Identify opportunities to make a relevant business case to develop open access • To help understand what is happening elsewhere to help guide local development and practice • …? HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 13
- 14. Key points arising 1 • Mixed environment across most areas – With common threads to track • QA sits with Library regardless of deposit mechanism • Text-mining a largely unexplored area – Issue with predominant file type – PDF • Heaviest focus is on Green OA, with Gold an add-on • Reporting an undeveloped area • Metadata entry uses automated schemes (e.g., via DOI), but still appears to be lots of manual effort HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 14
- 15. Key points arising 2 • Widespread use of policies/mandates – Informed by specific open access committee / WG or University Research Committee • CC licences used widely, but often only when required • Most sites now have 1 or more FTE on open access • Widespread mix of institutional units involved in OA – Commonly Library, Research Office, Finance – Less direct academic involvement as yet • Main concerns are resources and time – and acceptance date! HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 15
- 16. Funder policy breakdown and navigation • Spreadsheet of funder policies broken down – https://goo.gl/5m1GUA • Intention is to find a way for academic staff to navigate information so they know what they need to do – Recognises that research often funded by multiple funders • Related initiatives – PASTEUR4OA project – developing proposed schema for how such policies should be structured – Sherpa JULIET – individual funder policy presentation HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 16
- 17. Open access life cycle HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 17 http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/24260/
- 18. Open access life cycle • 7 stages of the publishing process as described by Neil Jacobs (Jisc OA Services) • Institutional processes – not all institutions will have all processes up and running • Publisher services that directly impact upon the work of the open access team • Jisc OA and above campus services • 6 sections of Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians (OAWAL - https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/oawal/) showing where it fits with the life cycle HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 18
- 19. Technical development • Hull – Hydra / Fedora • Huddersfield – Eprints (hosted) • Lincoln – Eprints (local) • Three case studies of how to make the technology work for REF / open access • RIOXX metadata review undertaken to assess implementation requirements – Baseline review from March indicated many waiting on implementation • REF metadata review forthcoming HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 19
- 20. RIOXX • RIOXX metadata schema – Combination of Dublin Core and specific fields – Designed for RCUK open access reporting – Being seen as de facto schema for HEFCE reporting – CERIF-lite – http://rioxx.net • Repository systems need to capture this information – Mixed picture – Implementation progress being tracked at http://rioxx.net/implementation • Repository staff need to understand where the information is coming from HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 20
- 21. RIOXX analysis • HHuLOA analysed the RIOXX schema and has circulated proposed practice on its adoption – https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/hhuloa/2015/06/29/rioxx- review-and-proposed-practice/ • Two key questions – License information • OK if licensed under Creative Commons • Unclear that publishers provide this in a consistent and persistent manner, hence, default to ‘all rights reserved’ otherwise – Versioning • Version vocabulary is good, but there is no standard definition of which type of document constitutes which version HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 21
- 22. Open access and research development • Making the case for open access is generally based on the advocacy / dissemination advantages • It is sometimes left to researchers to work out how to fit this into their existing practice • How can we best embed open access within research practice? • Two perspectives to addressing this – Day to day activity – Strategy HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 22
- 23. Research facets • Financial, legal, research dissemination function, technical, staffing, community, other? • How can open access support each of these? • Questions to ask for each facet – What benefits does open access offer? – Which stakeholders need to be involved in this? – What outcomes would use of open access result in? • Information gathered within project and through project event – Watch project blog for dissemination HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 23
- 24. What do you think? • Exchanging information on open access can help development • Please turn to your neighbour (preferably from a different institution) and ask, – How could open access help support research development at your institution? – Who needs to be involved (institutionally) to make this work? • One answer each – please note on post-its HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 24
- 25. Looking ahead • Baseline development • Funder policy navigation • OA life cycle for different stakeholders • Technical implementation • Research and open access survey (October 2015) • Open access and library supply chain parallels HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 25
- 26. Jisc Monitor • Jisc Monitor was initially funded 2014-15 to investigate shared services that could support open access – https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Jisc-Monitor • Project is now developing services – Monitor local • A local software application enabling institutions to record and report on data relating to OA outputs – Monitor UK Aggregator • A shared service that combines OA data from across institutions to provide a sector-wide picture to inform policy and content negotiations • HHuLOA will be assisting with these service developments HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 26
- 27. Please engage • The more we share about our open access implementations, the more we can learn from each other – The more we can learn about how to make open access work for our institutions • Steps to take – Add data to baseline template – Respond to open access and research survey – Attend Pathfinder events – Use Pathfinder outputs – and feed back on their use to help improve them HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 27
- 28. Pathfinder outputs • All outputs from Pathfinder projects can be found through the quarterly updates and other Jisc documentation – http://openaccess.jiscinvolve.org/wp/pathfinder-projects – http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6143/1/oa-top-tips.pdf • Plenty more outputs will emerge in the coming months – Keep watch via the OAGOODPRACTICE Jiscmail list – http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/oagoodpractice • Look out for upcoming events from the projects – These will be announced via the above list and related repository / open access lists HHuLOA @ Northern Collaboration Conference | 10 September 2015 | 28
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