Managing open access with EPrints software: a case study

McCutcheon, Valerie; Eadie, Michael

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“…A group of authors focused their attention on the "Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA)", authorized by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy [19,33,35,[38][39][40][41]. According to [29] in this project, running from 2017 to 2020, "the 21 public universities cooperate to promote OA through concerted measures" [29]. This initiative included four subprojects that focused on: "drafting an expert's report about the financial impact of a total adjustment to OA on a national and institutional basis, the extension of existing consortium licenses with an OA component, establishment of an OA publishing fund as well as the promotion of OA monographs and suitable OA infrastructures'' [33].…”

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“…Works on repositories focus on diagnosing existing repositories [56,70], presenting specific projects or initiatives for putting in place repositories [29,37,41,51,52,56,61], or in studying the challenges faced by researchers and other stakeholders for embracing OA. These challenges could be partly mitigated, if they took advantage of repositories [44,62,64], while others show the challenges for fully taking advantage of repositories [45,58].…”

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“…Moreover, McCutcheon and Eadie present the development of IR from the University of Glasgow in the UK as a resource for managing OA [29]. The repository considers the UK's OA policy, the University's OA flow, and the provisions defined by funding funds such as the UK Charities Open Access Fund, the European Union, other funder policies, and internal reporting requirements.…”

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Open Access Research Trends in Higher Education: A Literature Review

Osorio-Sanabria¹,

Jaime²,

Andrea³

et al. 2021

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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This study is a review of the literature on open access (OA), seeking to identify trends in research on the subject. This review was conducted in the SCOPUS database and focused on the following as the main topics: 1. Financial aspects, 2. Repositories, 3. Education, 4. Academic community's perception of OA resources, 5. Tools, 6. Policies, 7. Institutions, 8. Stakeholders,and 9. Impact. Out of these topics, the financial aspect, especially in OA's publication costs, was identified as driving great interest among researchers in the field. On the other hand, the study of the impact of OA is a subject little examined. Although research on OA in the higher education sector analyzes different perspectives and describes advances, challenges, and concerns, it is fair to conclude that OA encourages the creation and dissemination of knowledge and academic communication.

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Open Access Research Trends in Higher Education: A Literature Review

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Jaime²,

Andrea³

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“…We now have to ensure that the acceptance date of publications is recorded against each journal article or conference proceeding, and we have developed fields to record details about the open access status of papers in our repository (McCutcheon & Eadie, 2016). Figure 3 shows the Enlighten Open Access fields.…”

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Adapting to a Dynamic Higher Education Environment – How the University of Glasgow Library Is Taking Up the Challenge

Ashworth¹

2016

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Abstract:The University of Glasgow Library is continuously developing space and services to meet the need of students and researchers in an evolving higher education landscape. We are an evidence-based organisation and have used tools such as ethnography, surveys and focus groups to understand how users interact with the physical and virtual library. We have also introduced new roles and created new partnerships across the University, particularly in the context of the United Kingdom Government's policy on open access and funder requirements for the management of research data. This paper will focus on how the University of Glasgow Library is adapting to both the dynamic scholarly communications environment and the demands of our national research exercise and evidence from users and changing student needs. Research Office, has taken the lead in publicising these policies to ensure that researchers are aware of their responsibilities. It has also developed new functionality in Enlighten, our institutional repository service to support compliance.In 2015, the Library commissioned an in-depth ethnographic study to help us more readily understand the changing needs of students and how they use library space. An overview of the results of this work and our next steps will demonstrate how we are "enabling progress". ABSTRACTThe University of Glasgow Library is continuously developing space and services to meet the need of students and researchers in an evolving higher education landscape. We are an evidence-based organisation and have used tools such as ethnography, surveys and focus groups to understand how users interact with the physical and virtual library. We have also introduced new roles and created new partnerships across the University, particularly in the context of the United Kingdom Government's policy on open access and funder requirements for the management of research data. This paper will focus on how the University of Glasgow Library is adapting to both the dynamic scholarly communications environment and the demands of our national research exercise and evidence from users and changing student needs. In 2015, the Library commissioned an in-depth ethnographic study to help us more readily understand the changing needs of students and how they use library space. An overview of the results of this work and our next steps will demonstrate how we are "enabling progress".

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Open access and knowledge sharing: Reflections on the Pathfinder projects and Open Access Good Practice initiative

DeGroff¹

2016

Insights the UKSG Journal

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The following article provides a selection of reflections from a number of higher education institutions and their staff about participation in the UK-wide Pathfinder project scheme. These nine projects (comprising 30 institutions) form the core of the Jisc-funded Open Access Good Practice initiative. They have produced a wide range of outputs which endorse and encourage best practice when implementing open access across institutions. Each project has a blog where progress and outputs can be tracked. Details are listed at the end of this article. Open access and knowledge sharing: Reflections on the Pathfinder projects and Open Access Good Practice initiative IntroductionThe Open Access Good Practice (OAGP) initiative is a community-led support programme which aims to develop and share best practice when implementing open access (OA) workflows, systems and procedures across UK higher education institutions (HEIs). As part of this programme, nine Pathfinder projects were established in 2014 to investigate different areas under the themes of advocacy; baselining and policy; structures and workflows; systems and metadata; and cost management. 1Each Pathfinder project team was made up of staff from between two and five institutions who were tasked with not only investigating these different areas of OA, but producing and sharing with the HEI community resources which could help universities and their researchers more easily adopt OA. The Collaborative Institutional Assessment of Open Access tool (also known as CIAO) is a good example of the reach of Pathfinder outputs.2 Created by the Making Sense of Open Access project, this benchmarking tool has been used by at least 50 UK HEIs to assess their readiness for OA compliance.Over the last two years numerous events have been held across the UK as a way to disseminate the findings of the projects (details of which can be found on the individual project blogs). As Catherine Sharp (Open Access Funding Manager at UCL and project lead of the Pathways to OA project) acknowledges, the main intention of the scheme has been 'knowledge sharing, and bringing together different sections of the community'. In this regard, the OAGP mailing list (which has over 260 subscribers) and Twitter account have provided useful supplementary forums for the whole HEI community to discuss and share experiences, issues and findings.As the projects come to a close, it has been important to assess the impact of the initiative. Below is a selection of thoughts and reflections from project members about their experience of participating in the programme. Has the programme had an impact on your approach to advocacy and researcher engagement?As part of the Making Sense of Open Access Pathfinder project (led by Oxford Brookes University), Nottingham Trent University interviewed 50 researchers 'in order to gain a better knowledge of their understanding of OA, plus their attitudes and behaviours in relation to OA publishing'.3 It was hoped that this analysis would lead to 'more targeted and appropriate su...

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Managing open access with EPrints software: a case study

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Open Access Research Trends in Higher Education: A Literature Review

Open Access Research Trends in Higher Education: A Literature Review

Adapting to a Dynamic Higher Education Environment – How the University of Glasgow Library Is Taking Up the Challenge

Open access and knowledge sharing: Reflections on the Pathfinder projects and Open Access Good Practice initiative

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