{"id":1625,"date":"2014-07-30T16:22:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T15:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2014-07-31T12:55:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T11:55:28","slug":"open-access-at-ucl-and-bournemouth-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2014\/07\/open-access-at-ucl-and-bournemouth-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Access at UCL and Bournemouth University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite different institutions but similarities in publications management at systems level:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Both use Symplectic Elements to manage publications and EPrints for IR<\/li>\n<li>BU Research and Knowledge Exchange Office manages OA funding and &#8216;Bournemouth Research Information and Networking&#8217; while the IR (BURO) is managed by the library<\/li>\n<li>UCL Library manages both OA funding and publications through the Research Publications Service (RPS &#8211; think this is the Symplectic Elements) and Discovery (EPrints)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Publications Management<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers manage their data via Symplectic, which can also get data from Scopus and Web of Science, the data is then pushed out to profile pages and\/or Repository<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Institutional Repositories<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UCL IR (Discovery) is both metadata only and full-text outputs &#8211; 317794 outputs in\u00a0total &#8211; includes 5111 theses<\/li>\n<li>Bournemouth only has full-text \u00a0&#8211; much smaller numbers &#8211; 2831 outputs in total &#8211; not all public access<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Staff support<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UCL &#8211; a Virtual Open Access Team\n<ul>\n<li>Gold: 4 = manager + 3 staff<\/li>\n<li>Green: 4.27 = manager + 3.27 staff<\/li>\n<li>UCL Press: 1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/library\/ucl-press\/\">http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/library\/ucl-press\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bournemouth\n<ul>\n<li>OA Funding &#8211; 1 manager<\/li>\n<li>No fulltime repository staff<\/li>\n<li>Rota of 3 editorial staff, working one week in three on outputs received<\/li>\n<li>0.2 repository administrator<\/li>\n<li>0.2 Repository manager<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OA Funding<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UCL OA funding managed by OA Team in the library\n<ul>\n<li>Combination of RCUK, UCL and Wellcome funding<\/li>\n<li>at least 9000 research pubs per annum<\/li>\n<li>RCUK 2013-14 target: 693 papers &#8211; successfully processed 796<\/li>\n<li>Current level of APC payments &gt;2000 per annum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UCL has many pre-payment agreements in place for APCs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BioMed Central<\/li>\n<li>Elsevier<\/li>\n<li>BMJ Journals<\/li>\n<li>RSC<\/li>\n<li>IEEE<\/li>\n<li>PeerJ<\/li>\n<li>Sage<\/li>\n<li>PLOS<\/li>\n<li>Springer<\/li>\n<li>T&amp;F<\/li>\n<li>Wiley<\/li>\n<li>ubiquity press<\/li>\n<li>and more &#8211; and hoping to extend further<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pre-payment agreements have been very successful and saved money<\/p>\n<p><strong>Both Bournemouth and UCL have found it challenging to spend all the money available for APCs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Challenges for engagement<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UCL Discovery\n<ul>\n<li>Metadatga only outputs &#8211; poor quality, not checked, can be entered multiple times<\/li>\n<li>Feeds into\u00a0Symplectic Elements from Scopus and WoS can lead to duplicates: Scopus sometimes has records for pre and post publication and WoS can have a record also &#8211; and academics select all three rather than just choosing one of them<\/li>\n<li>Academic engagement<\/li>\n<li>Difficulty sending large files from RPS (Symplectic) to IR<\/li>\n<li>Furious about how h index is calculated in RPS (manual entries aren&#8217;t counted, only items from Scopus \/ WoS)<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect search settings in RPS<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t understand the data harvesting process &#8211; user managed to crash the system by entering single word search with common author name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bournemouth BURO\n<ul>\n<li>2013 &#8211; converted with full-text only<\/li>\n<li>Mapping data issues<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect publications display on original staff pages<\/li>\n<li>Academic staff left thinking BURO no longer existed [think implication is that it looked liked it had been replaced by RPS?]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UCL have very clear requirement for outputs to be deposited in IR &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/library\/open-access\/ref\/\">http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/library\/open-access\/ref\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheer volume of outputs at UCL is overwhelming<\/p>\n<p>At Bournemouth &#8211; advocacy a big issue still (especially since many thought BURO had been discontinued) &#8211; but now outputs in BURO and BRIAN must be considered in pay and progression.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shared challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deposit on acceptance<\/li>\n<li>Open Access options &#8211; making sure academics know what routes of publication are open to them<\/li>\n<li>Establishing new workflows<\/li>\n<li>Publishers move goalposts, change conditions etc.<\/li>\n<li>Flexible support<\/li>\n<li>Encouraging champions in Faculties<\/li>\n<li>Use the REF2020 as a stick and a carrot for their research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UCL as a whole supports Green OA, but assists academics to meet their requirements through Gold OA route. UCL feels Gold will still be important to science disciplines<\/p>\n<p>BU &#8211; funding will be available and has institutional support &#8211; but issues may arise depending on volume in the future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite different institutions but similarities in publications management at systems level: Both use Symplectic Elements to manage publications and EPrints for IR BU Research and Knowledge Exchange Office manages OA funding and &#8216;Bournemouth Research Information and Networking&#8217; while the IR (BURO) is managed by the library UCL Library manages both OA funding and publications through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rfringe14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1628,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}