Enabling librarians to engage with academic staff · Ruth Harrison, Head of Scholarly...
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Library Services Enabling librarians to engage with academic staff BLA Conference, 14 th July 2016 Ruth Harrison, Head of Scholarly Communications Management [email protected] @ruthej
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Library Services
Enabling librarians to engage with academic staff
BLA Conference, 14th July 2016
Ruth Harrison, Head of Scholarly Communications Management [email protected] @ruthej
Today The Library’s research support team OA at the College and in the Business School How we have engaged library teams: • Understanding OA and RDM • Policy and mandate awareness • Liaison with OA team • Encouraging department outreach
Challenges
Imperial College London Nine London campuses Faculties of Engineering, Medicine, Natural Sciences and the Business School Ranked 3rd in Europe / 8th in the world (THE 2015-16 rankings) Net income (2014): £969m, incl. £428m research grants and contracts 15,000 students, 8,000 staff, incl. 3,900 academic & research staff Staff publish 10-12,000 scholarly articles per year Average quarterly APC commitment: £433 533 (2015 from 3 funds)
Library Services: research support
Scholarly Communications Management team
Open access publishing
The volume of research outputs we potentially have to manage
The increase in deposits to the repository
Business School and open access
Types of output published by Business School authors
The increase in deposits to the repository by Business School authors
(some of) What we’ve done to engage…
Addressing the fear of the unknown
Book cover: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/9780262517638.jpg
REF
Funders…
Institutional OA Fund
Researcher
Other Funder
Institution
Publisher with OA Option
Open Access Publisher
Central/subject Repository
Institutional Repository
?
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Mandate
RCUK
Funding
Mandate
Institutional Database
Institutional OA Fund
Researcher
Other Funder
Institution
Publisher with OA Option
Open Access Publisher
Central/subject Repository
Institutional Repository
?
?
Mandate
RCUK
Funding
Mandate
Institutional Database
From Bill Hubbard, Getting the rights right: when policies collide http://www.slideshare.net/UKSG/hubbard-uksg-may2015-public
Policy and mandate awareness Regular update meetings with liaison librarians
OA buddy scheme between OA and liaison teams
Circulation of relevant reports on College OA activities
Web pages and FAQs
Invitations to all awareness raising activities
CPD provided by the SCM team and external events
Education support
Open access for Faculty Support and Medicine teams: summer seminar series
1. Wednesday 31st July, 09.30-10.30
Open access routes: terminology used? Developing a shared glossary of terms related to open access.
2. Wednesday 7th August, 09.30-10.30
Creative Commons licences: what are they? How can they be explained to academic staff and researchers?
3. Thursday 15th August, 09.30-10.30
Using the Sherpa services: using SHERPA FACT, RoMEO and JULIET can you find out whether x publisher has a green OA policy? Is it compliant with x funder?
4. Wednesday 21st August, 09.30-10.30
Understanding the RCUK policy: what are the implications for researchers with RCUK funding? What do they need to know and understand in relation to their specific funder?
5. Tuesday 10th September, 09.30-10.30
Managing an open access query: working with case studies to understand stages of a query
Challenges for my team and you?
Researchers
Administration and bureaucracy
Research data management
Copyright and licensing
None of this is in isolation
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