{"id":58,"date":"2014-12-11T15:41:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T15:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/?p=58"},"modified":"2014-12-11T15:54:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T15:54:04","slug":"preparing-web-content-about-open-access-in-the-next-ref","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/2014\/12\/11\/preparing-web-content-about-open-access-in-the-next-ref\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing web content about Open Access in the next REF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the University of Edinburgh, we have been working on getting the message out about the OA requirements for the next REF. \u00a0Almost as soon as the requirements were released by HEFCE, the Scholarly Communications Officer Theo Andrew put a simple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/information-services\/research-support\/publish-research\/open-access\/post-2014-ref-oa\">page<\/a> together on the library website to provide information to academics.<\/p>\n<p>We felt that it would be useful to simplify the requirements and to produce a &#8220;micro-site&#8221; which would provide information to academics, to complement our portfolio of outreach and advocacy activities. \u00a0Scholarly Communications Officer\u00a0Eugen Stoica has been working on a design based on a template in WordPress. \u00a0This beta site is live, though it has not been widely promoted to its target market of\u00a0academics as we are awaiting for it to be professionally re-built in the University&#8217;s new CMS. \u00a0We are expecting a formal launch in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the meantime you can see our rough designs and suggested texts at <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openaccess\/\">www.ed.ac.uk\/open-access-ref<\/a> (the URL will remain constant, but a visually improved\u00a0site is in development). \u00a0The design elements will remain the same, and we have printed some business cards to provide people with a reminder of the URL.<\/p>\n<p>We are licencing the website design, content and the design of associated materials (such as the business cards) using CC-BY, with the intention that other Universities can build on and develop our modest work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/files\/2014\/12\/LIB03-15895-OPEN-ACCESS-BCARD.pdf\">LIB03 15895 OPEN ACCESS BCARD<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Dominic Tate &#8211; <em>University of Edinburgh \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the University of Edinburgh, we have been working on getting the message out about the OA requirements for the next REF. \u00a0Almost as soon as the requirements were released&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/2014\/12\/11\/preparing-web-content-about-open-access-in-the-next-ref\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Preparing web content about Open Access in the next REF<\/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\/58"}],"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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/loch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}