Managing Open Access Publication: a system specification | Jisc Monitor

"Before Christmas I blogged about the work we were doing on creating a specification for a system which could help institutions manage aspects of Open Access publishing at a local level. We started this work focussing on the data and processes related to the payment of APCs, but it very quickly became apparent that any system in this area would need to be able to handle some aspects of ‘green’ as well as ‘gold’ OA publication routes. We worked with several UK Universities to understand the workflows and data involved. We also reviewed the work of the Jisc Open Access Good Practice Pathfinder projects such as “End to End Open Access” (E2EOA), GW4 OA pathfinder and Pathways to Open Access. The outcome of this work was a document describing a system that could help UK HE institutions manage administrative data in relation to the publication of open access Academic Outputs. The document includes: A description the scope of such a system and the workflows it should support A description of an appropriate data model given the scope and workflows A number of illustrative wireframes for a user interface (UI) to such a system The document is available at: http://jiscmonitor.jiscinvolve.org/wp/files/2015/01/CopyofManagingOpenAccessPublicationasystemspecificationforblog.pdf"