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Open Access Advocacy at Nottingham

Lydia Johnson, Senior Librarian (Research Support)

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Overview

• OA at Nottingham

• Advocacy over time

• Where we are now

• Challenges

• What next?

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OA at Nottingham

• First Institutional Repository

• Central OA fund since 2006

• Centre for Research Communications

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Central fund starts

Early advocacy

activity

2009

First Nottingham

OA policy

2010

Meetings with

Faculty Research

Committees

Trough of Disillusionment?

2012

Finch Report

RCUK policy

2012/13

BIS/RCUK

funding for OA

2013

HEFCE proposals

for REF OA

Policy

2013

Further

Advocacy

2014

RCUK Block

grant

2014

New UoN Open

access policy

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Where are we now?

• Open access support

– Library, Research and Learning Resources

– Research and Graduate Services

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Where are we now?

• Library restructure – August 2014

4 Faculty teams

Research Support Team

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Research Support – Open access

• History of good advocacy across the institution

– Not always systematic

– Differing levels of understanding

– Differing levels of engagement

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Research support - challenges

• Understanding where Faculties are in terms of

open access

• Providing support, guides centrally rather than

subject specific

• Upskilling of the team

• Advocating and supporting OA whilst establishing

the team

• Systems

• Competing priorities – Supporting several

aspects of research

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What next?

• Launch new comms plan

• Updating website

• Getting out to academics!

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