OA Dashboard feasibility study: Our findings and conclusions | Jisc scholarly communications

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-09-14

Summary:

"As work comes to a close on the OA Dashboard project, we wanted to share our findings and conclusions and give an outline of what we are planning to do next in this space. Taken forward by Research Consulting in partnership with Pleiade Management and Consultancy and Digirati, the project aimed to assess the feasibility of a dashboard that would support institutions by combining and visualising data on OA. Such a system has the potential to improve institutional workflows by providing easier access to information on OA....

We reached the conclusion that a full business case cannot be built at this time, as the strength of the available evidence is, on average, low, and does not enable a strong case for further investment to be made. A key factor is that, although there is a gap in terms of analysing data on OA, open data sources are not mature enough to power a dashboard and may undermine the validity of its outputs.Whilst it is recommended that the development of a dashboard of this nature is put on hold and re-evaluated in the future, Jisc recognises the importance of centralised systems that enable libraries in being able to monitor their OA activity, encourage the discovery of OA content and support decision-making relating to their library holdings more generally. Therefore, the sector should be assured that work will continue in earnest to investigate new, innovative ways of working in this area...."

Link:

https://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2017/09/14/oa-dashboard-feasibility-study-our-findings-and-conclusions/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.tools oa.jisc oa.hei oa.uk oa.compliance oa.policies.funders oa.funders.public oa.mandates oa.data oa.visualizations oa.policies oa.funders

Date tagged:

09/14/2017, 16:33

Date published:

09/14/2017, 06:44