Yvonne Budden gave an overview of open access developments in the UK and at the University of Warwick. She discussed the university's WRAP repository, which has grown significantly in recent years. Budden also described the university's efforts to advocate for open access, including through training programs, publisher events, and an open access journal. She concluded by emphasizing the importance of continued advocacy and engagement with researchers on open access issues.
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"Open Access at the Coal Face: attitudes and practical responses" Yvonne Budden, DARTS4
1. Open Access at the Coal Face –
Attitudes and Practical
Responses
Yvonne Budden
University of Warwick and UKCoRR
DARTS4 Conference, Dartington Hall, Totnes.
6th June 2014
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Overview
• Setting the scene
• Open Access at the University of Warwick
• United Kingdom Council of Research
Repositories
• Top tips!
• Where next and future plans
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Current Developments in the
UK
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Future Developments
• SHARE / CHORUS
– Which approach will be taken by the US?
• Horizon 2020
– European Commission mandate
• REF2020 Open Access Mandate
– What will implementation look like?
• Reporting on RCUK Mandate
– Can we prove 45% compliance?
– What will reporting look like?
• Open Access monographs
– How will they change the landscape?
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Discussion
• How have these developments affected
your services?
• What are the attitudes of your researchers
to open access?
• What are the issues/concerns for your
institution generally?
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Attitudes to Open Access
• 79.4% of responders in favour of OA
principles
• 70.8% have made work open access
– Of those 67.1% used WRAP
• 70.4% believe copyright of articles should
remain with the author
• 93.5% keep a copy of the AAM
• 48.6% are happy with CC-BY licenses for
their work
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However…
• Real concerns about:
– ‘Gold’ open access and effect on research
funds
– Intellectual property rights and copyright
– Quality of ‘pure’ open access journals
– Time needed and difficulty of navigating
policies and processes
– Concerns projects jointly funded by RCUK
and commercial companies
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Some comments…
“I think I just need someone to sit me down and
make me hunt through the computer for the files
needed to put into wrap... It's a task I know I ought
to do but never get round to”
“I would just prefer to upload my
accepted version on the arXiv web pages
and on my own/group web pages. I think
this whole business of paying journals is
a gross waste of money.”
“The problem is not whether to choose open access or not. The problem is
that the current model where UK universities pay extra for open access and
still pay the library subscription means we pay twice - and thus less money for
actually doing the research. Also, I think at some point we need to move to a
model where we actually pay the reviewers and editors.”
“WRAP is excellent. It would be a
good idea to send regular
reminders to academics to update
their deposited material. I am
guilty of not doing this regularly.”
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The Warwick Context
• Founded 1965
• Currently boasts:
– 988 academics, 617 of which are research
active
– ~ 2,000 Postgraduate research students
– DTCs, Institute of Advanced Study
• In the 2011/12 year
– Research grants and contracts = £85 million
– HEFCE grant for research = £33 million
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Practical responses to OA
• Institutional buy-in
• Motto – ‘Advocacy, Advocacy, Advocacy’
• The ‘Rule of Three’ / Trebling
– Need to tell people something
– 3 different times
– In 3 different ways
– Before they remember
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Open Access @ Warwick
• WRAP launched in 2008
• Publications service launched in 2011
• RCUK block grant awarded:
– 2013/14 = £352,781
– 2014/15 = £415,036
• University of Warwick Open Access policy
launched 1 April 2013
OA Buttons by h_pampel (made available under the Creative Commons Attibution Share-Alike 2.0 license.)
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WRAP growth
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WRAPping it up!
• Services for researchers
– Copyright checking and assurance
– WRAP@mydesk and weekly drop-in
sessions
– Monitoring alerts and soliciting deposits
– Auto-generated publication lists -
http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/view/author_id/757
7.html
• Training events and tools
• Metadata changes
• New ‘Data Registry’
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RCUK Grant Management
• Dedicated member of staff
• Coordinates, developed and delivers targeted
advocacy for ‘gold’ OA particularly
• Oversees the allocations from the RCUK and
Wellcome Trust Grants
– Follows the process from allocation to journal
publication
• Works closely with financial colleagues to
ensure invoice payments
• Liaises closely with Publisher colleagues as
well
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Other activities…
• Hosted publisher events
• ‘Exchanges – The Warwick Research
Journal’
– http://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk
– Partnership between the Library and
Institute of Advanced Study
– Journal hosted on OJS
– Training and publishing for ECRs
– Innovative formats of articles
– Features ‘conversations’ or ‘exchanges’
– Gold OA without a fee
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• New Moodle
course looking at
key tools aimed
at PGRs and
ECRs
• 3 core modules
• 7 option modules
available flexibly
• Tutor support via
forums
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OA Collaboration
• Student Careers and Skills
– Publication strategy training
– ‘Hot Topics’ sessions
• Graduate School
– PGR training around deposit of theses
• Research Support Services
– Training for staff supporting researchers in grant
preparation
– WRAP linkup with Research Information System
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The ‘Cat’s Eye View’
• Promote the use of OA
materials
• Make sure OA resources are
listed in your catalogue
• Link OA promotion to other
work:
– REF preparations
– Research Data Management
– PhD Supervisors Training
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UKCoRR – Support for
repository staff
• Dedicated community
• Use of closed email discussion list to create a
‘safe’ space
– Discussions cover practicalities, theory and latest
developments
• Yearly member’s events
– Presentations and videos of the sessions openly
available on our website:
– http://ukcorr.org
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UKCoRR – advocacy and
engagement
• Representative body for repository
staff undertakes advocacy in this area
– 2 x Government consultation responses
– 2 x HEFCE Consultation responses
– Continued work with HEFCE on their policy FAQs
• Work in Jisc coordinated groups covering
their areas of activity in this area and more
generally
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Discussion
• If you could give the group one ‘top tip’
from your experience, what would it
be?
• What approaches have worked for your
institution?
• What other things would you like to try?
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Open Access – Top Tips
(DARTS Edition)
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OA Top Tips
• You are the expert – believe in this!
• Use the ‘rule of three’ – keep getting the
message out there
• Personal contacts can be more successful
than mass mailings
• Prove it!
– Case studies, statistics, citation score information
• Track the process – can be more time
consuming than you’d think
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OA Top Tips
• Try as many different approaches as your
imagination (and budget) allows
• This is a sensitive topic and people are reacting
to it differently
• Get on the lists!
– There’s no such things as a stupid question!
• Judge when to be cautious
• Get involved:
– UKCoRR, SPARC, CILIP
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Where next for us?
• Survey has given us much food for
thought!
• Continue to work on processes
• My may have won over the ‘hearts’ but the
‘minds’ may be some time coming
• New Research Information System
• And as always…
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Thanks for listening!
Yvonne Budden
Academic Support Manager (Research)
Chair, UK Council for Research Repositories
y.c.budden@warwick.ac.uk
+44 2476 151275
Notes de l'éditeur
Clear that we haven’t got it completely right yet! But information like this from academics and in the follow up focus group discussions will allow us to continue to improve.
Issues seems to be in the main that the processes aren’t easy for researchers – despite the Library assistance (mentioned later) – some of the financial procedures for both institutions and publishers continues to be difficult. If we could ensure that something like the Jisc APC pilot is continued to be worked on.
CDT/DTC – 6 EPSRC, 1 ESRC,
Formed a Scholarly Comms and Open Access working group – gives a high level steer on priorities for the spending of the
Training with all bodies – departments, general sessions, research groups, interested individuals
Accept as many offers as possible!
Rule of three a media studies/television idea
Developments to support HEFCE policy
New deposit screenflow demonstrates that deposit takes under 3 minutes!
Following the strong visual identity – doesn’t have to cost the earth but is a great way to grab people’s attention and get them engaging with the system.
Constant reminder on their desk!
‘Highlight your research’ – nice simple message that appeals to researchers vanity and can get better results.
Spent over £50,000 in the last two months!
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To successfully complete the course students must:
Introduce themselves in the course forum
Complete all three core modules (in order)
Complete at least two option modules
Tutor support was provided everyday through the core modules and first 4 weeks of the options
Tutor support ranged from responses to the forum posts
Way of looking at things a different way – “When depressed or confused, try lying on your back with your legs in the air; sometimes the world just looks better upside-down” – The Cat’s Little Instruction Book by Leigh Rutledge.
Library to author and to publisher
make sure you’re paying for what you’re getting and getting what you’re paying for!
Open Access is not a drug but the use of some of the rhetoric is inevitable!
Just keep getting the message out there!
Try as many different approaches as your imagination (and budget) allows
Aim for an institutional mandate
Make the most of champions
Personal contact can have more impact than a mass mailing
Allow researchers to engage with training when it suits them
