Promoting Open Access in a department – what works | Unlocking Research

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-09

Summary:

"At Cambridge University, the Open Access team offers a centralised service to help our researchers make their work open access and comply with their funder requirements. But getting researchers to visit www.openaccess.cam.ac.uk and engage with the service is proving to be a challenge. We estimate that only around a third of the University’s journal articles are currently being uploaded within the three-month window allowed by HEFCE. We’re working hard to publicise the message at our end, but centralised services can’t reach all academics in the same way as their departments and colleges can. If we’re to ensure that as much of the University’s output as possible is available Open Access and eligible for the next REF, some of that work has to happen in departments ..."

Link:

https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=564

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.u.cambridge oa.hefce oa.ref oa.uk oa.funders oa.mandates oa.compliance oa.policies

Date tagged:

03/09/2016, 16:47

Date published:

03/09/2016, 11:47