On the 4th April, the End-to-End OA and LOCH Pathfinder projects hosted a successful technical workshop in Glasgow looking at the functionality that’s offered by different systems for OA implementation. Short presentations and demos were given on how PURE, Converis, DSpace, EPrints, Hydra and Fedora, and Jisc Monitor support OA requirements. Parallel breakout sessions focused … Read more
On the 25th January, UCL hosted a Pathfinder workshop on the topics of: research outputs that fall under the exceptions category of HEFCE’s REF OA policy the use of subject repositories as places of deposit by researchers and their institutions. Following an update from Hannah DeGroff on the REF Compliance Checker plugin for EPrints and … Read more
The Making Sense project has been very busy across its constituent institutions over the last 3 months. You can read about what they have been up to on their blog – http://sensemakingopenaccess.blogspot.co.uk/. The latest blogs include: Ruth Stubbings from Nottingham Trent University (NTU) writes about their use of interviews to gain a better understanding of researcher attitudes and behaviours … Read more
Jisc is changing the way it reports on its work towards open access with a concise quarterly digest summarising all of its activity in the area replacing individual reports. Until now OA Good Practice has been reporting through quarterly synthesis reports but this will be replaced by more concise blog posts until the end of the programme in … Read more
The End-to-End project from the universities of Glasgow, Lancaster, Southampton and Kent have been busy over the past couple of months. Some highlights include: They have extracted article processing data direct from their system (EPrints) and submitted this to the Jisc APC analysis. The CASRAI UK initial webinar has taken place and plans are being made for … Read more
Over recent months the opeNWorks project team have been busy on two main areas of work: To aid the development of a regional OA community we have created an online hub for the toolkit we released in September – openworks.online. The resource is listed on the NoWAL website’s information for the regional Research Support Group and provides an … Read more
Teesside University is the fourth and final case study report from our Pathfinder project. As mentioned in our previous post, as part of our Jisc-funded Pathfinder we have travelled to HEIs around the country to hold Open Access focus groups, aiming to find out about good practice across five key areas of OA implementation: 1) Costs 2) Structure and … Read more
This survey of the literature describing benefits and disadvantages of pre-payment deals is an attempt to pull together the issues surrounding pre-payment models and the development of the APC market to inform further discussion. A survey of the published literature on the potential wider market effects of pre-payments on the development of the APC payments market The survey … Read more
Over the Autumn months, a range of free FOSTER webinars have been delivered in partnership by Jisc and ARMA. These have been organised in order to support the obligation on UK institutions to ensure compliance with a range of Open Access policies, at both a domestic and European level. Targeting the UK’s professional community of … Read more
The HHuLOA Jisc Pathfinder project has had as one of its underlying themes the embedding of Open Access within research processes and strategy. It is today launching a survey to capture information from across HE institutions to better understand this link with research support, so as to provide guidance on how Open Access can be … Read more