A Day in the Life of an Open Access Research Adviser | Unlocking Research

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-10-20

Summary:

"As anyone working in it knows all too well, Open Access can be a complicated field, with multiple policies from funders, institutions and publishers which can be complex, sometimes obscure and sometimes mutually contradictory. While we’re keen to raise awareness of and engagement with Open Access issues, the University of Cambridge’s view is that expecting academics to get to grips with all this themselves would represent an unreasonable demand on their time and likely lead to errors and resentment. Instead, Cambridge’s policy is that authors should simply send us their Accepted Manuscript at acceptance through our simple upload system and our team of Research Advisers will check out exactly what they need to do to comply with all the relevant funder and journal policies and get back to them with individually-tailored advice. The same system also allows us to take care of deposit into the repository for HEFCE and to manage payments from the block grants we’ve received from the UK Research Councils (RCUK) and the Charities Open Access Fund (COAF – seven biomedical charities, including the Wellcome Trust). The idea is that from the academic’s point of view the process feels smooth and seamless. But the reality is that very little of the process is automated. Behind the scenes there’s a lot of (thankfully metaphorical) running around by our team of three Open Access Research Advisers to provide this service, as well as working on broader issues of communication, processing APCs and improving our systems. So what does a Cambridge Open Access Research Adviser do all day? Here’s a typical day in the life…"

Link:

https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=340

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oa.new oa.comment oa.u.cambridge oa.ir oa.green oa.mandates oa.uk oa.funders oa.compliance oa.oa_week oa.advocacy ru.sparc15 oa.repositories oa.policies

Date tagged:

10/20/2015, 08:14

Date published:

10/20/2015, 02:51