{"id":111,"date":"2015-09-21T10:10:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T10:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/?p=111"},"modified":"2015-09-21T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T10:10:48","slug":"loch-project-update-september-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/2015\/09\/21\/loch-project-update-september-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"LOCH Project Update &#8211; September 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three partners in the LOCH Project have all had busy few months, using the Summer to gear up for Open Access implementation in the new semester.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Events<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In early August, the project held a workshop in Edinburgh to talk about planning and implementation of Open Access requirements in REF 2020. Project partners presented case studies relating to activities at their universities and delegates were given the opportunity to start formulating or refining their own institutional plans.\u00a0 Presentations are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/2015\/08\/06\/ref-open-access-planning-workshop-5th-august\/\">http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/2015\/08\/06\/ref-open-access-planning-workshop-5th-august\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">External Promotion &amp; Publications<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dominic Tate attended the ELPUB 2015 conference in Valetta, Malta and talked about UK Open Access policy and the University of Edinburgh\u2019s approach to implementing Green Open Access in light of the OA requirements for the forthcoming REF. A conference paper which briefly analyses the implications of these requirements and\u00a0 the presentation slides are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/handle\/1842\/10553\">https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/handle\/1842\/10553<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Reusable Outputs \u2013 Deposit of Acceptance Email Templates<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colleagues at St Andrews University have published a series of reusable email templates which can be used by repository staff in a variety of circumstances to encourage academics to transition to \u201cdeposit on acceptance\u201d (as required for REF compliance). These are licenced with CC-BY and are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk\/handle\/10023\/7506\">https:\/\/research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk\/handle\/10023\/7506<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Reflections on the Last Few Months<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reviewing progress over the last few months, the Summer has been extremely busy, with LOCH Project partners working closely with colleagues from Elsevier and the PURE UK User Group to further develop functionality to support OA compliance for research funder and research assessment requirements.\u00a0 Thinking back about our activities, they have mostly been informed by external policy and amendments to it \u2013 and balancing these external pressures with a need to provide robust processes and services to support researchers in their work.\u00a0 Thinking about our conversations and deliberations over the last months \u2013 here are five top tips for Open Access implementation:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Devise, implement and maintain one steady internal policy on Open Access which provides best-fit for a range of external drivers (REF, RCUK, Wellcome, Horizon 2020 etc.).<\/li>\n<li>Do not change internal Open Access policy to reflect changes in the wider environment \u2013 doing so could be unsettling for researchers and undermine confidence in your Open Access services.<\/li>\n<li>Devise one very simple, clear message about what action researchers need to take and the support there is available to them.<\/li>\n<li>Robust yet flexible planning and early adoption are everything. Do not underestimate the time it takes to achieve a change of culture around publication practice.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t work in isolation \u2013 gain the buy-in of senior stakeholders, research administrators, library staff and academic research leads across your institution.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Looking Forward<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We are now in\u00a0the new Semester and April 2016 is rapidly approaching &#8211; and there is still much work to complete, but there are already a number of \u00a0dates for the diary and events in planning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A short workshop on Open Access implementation for PURE customers is planned to take place at the PURE UK User Group in Birmingham on Wednesday September 30<sup>th<\/sup>. Please contact <a href=\"mailto:dominic.tate@ed.ac.uk\">dominic.tate@ed.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0for further details of this event.<\/li>\n<li>Dominic Tate will be presenting at a FOSTER webinar facilitated by Jisc and ARMA on Thursday 19<sup>th<\/sup> This webinar will feature a series of case studies on Open Access advocacy \u2013 details are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arma.ac.uk\/events\/training-and-development\/online-resources\/neventitem.2015-06-17.2792528938\">https:\/\/www.arma.ac.uk\/events\/training-and-development\/online-resources\/neventitem.2015-06-17.2792528938<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A further Open Access planning workshop is planned for early December \u2013 this will take place in England \u2013 exact location and date to be confirmed and publicised shortly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Dominic Tate &#8211; on behalf of the LOCH Project Team<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three partners in the LOCH Project have all had busy few months, using the Summer to gear up for Open Access implementation in the new semester. &nbsp; Events In&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/2015\/09\/21\/loch-project-update-september-2015\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LOCH Project Update &#8211; September 2015<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}