{"id":126,"date":"2016-04-01T12:09:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T12:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/?p=126"},"modified":"2016-04-01T12:09:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T12:09:26","slug":"dynamic-research-support-for-academic-libraries-edinburgh-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/2016\/04\/01\/dynamic-research-support-for-academic-libraries-edinburgh-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries &#8211; Edinburgh Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week saw the publication of a new Facet Publishing title: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facetpublishing.co.uk\/title.php?id=300495#.Vv5iaUaUJ1H\">Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries<\/a> &#8211; <\/em>a book which is aimed at enabling academic librarians to develop excellent services to support research.<em> \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As Manager of the LOCH Project, I contributed a chapter in the form of a case study, entitled\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/handle\/1842\/15766\">Implementing Open Access across a Large University: A Case Study from the University of Edinburgh<\/a><\/em>. A pre-print of this case study is now available from Edinburgh Research Archive at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1842\/15766\">http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1842\/15766<\/a>. \u00a0Hopefully this may be of interest to practitioners looking at implementing more formal processes for ensuring Open Access to journal articles and conference proceedings &#8211; especially in light of the HEFCE Open Access Policy for REF, which comes into effect today (eek)!<\/p>\n<p>In case this chapter whets your appetite for finding out more about some of the latest thinking in library research support, then you may be interested in the video below, in which the book&#8217;s editor Starr Hoffman explains the topics covered. \u00a0You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksonix.co.uk\/facetpublishing\/9781783300495.pdf\">peek inside the book<\/a>\u00a0if you wish.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jTI1t9O3GBU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>***with apologies for any shameless self-promotion***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Dominic Tate, <em>Project Manager &#8211; LOCH<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week saw the publication of a new Facet Publishing title: Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries &#8211; a book which is aimed at enabling academic librarians to develop excellent&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/2016\/04\/01\/dynamic-research-support-for-academic-libraries-edinburgh-case-study\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries &#8211; Edinburgh Case Study<\/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\/126"}],"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=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}