The development and implementation of a university-wide self-archiving policy at Queensland University of Technology (QUT): Insights from the frontline

eekilcer@gmail.com's bookmark collection 2012-09-20

Summary:

"At Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia, we introduced a university-wide self-archiving policy in January 2004...What was the reaction of the QUT research community to the policy? Well, the sky didn’t fall in. So far, no objections to the concept or to the actual policy have been expressed. Has the policy facilitated efforts to populate QUT ePrints? In many ways, yes it has...Some disciplines have shown more enthusiasm, and depositing activity, than others. It has become apparent that our communication and promotion strategies and the supports provided need to be customised to suit the interests and research practices of each discipline group. A “one size fits all" approach was not very effective. This paper will briefly describe the policy’s formulation and endorsement process and the way that the policy is currently represented and promoted to QUT researchers. It will also describe, and discuss the relative effectiveness of the various strategies that have been adopted at QUT to encourage and support self-archiving within the University."

Link:

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/573/

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Tags:

oa.deposits oa.australia oa.outreach oa.liaisons oa.best_practices oa.repositories

Date tagged:

09/20/2012, 21:06

Date published:

09/20/2012, 17:06