Open Access - Making Sense : OA Baselining at institutional and individual level
pontika.nancy@gmail.com's bookmarks 2014-11-10
Summary:
"It seems like a long time since our first project meeting way back in July when we started on our journey. Having each given some background to where each university was with systems, structures and processes, we started to think about how we could explore researcher behaviour at each of our universities. It was decided that Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and University of Portsmouth would draw on the experiences of Oxford Brookes who had successfully used structured interviews for their research data audit and to use these techniques to discover more about researchers and the publication process. At the same time Oxford Brookes would conduct some more in-depth ethnographic studies on a number of researchers at different levels using a set of cultural probes which could be observations, diary keeping - video or written, recording open access pain points. We will be making more progress on this in the next six months ..."