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Strategies for gaining and maintaining academic support for the institutional open access repository. Martin Borchert Associate Director, Library Services (Information Resources and Research Support) Queensland University of Technology Library Paula Callan eResearch Access Coordinator
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Strategies for gaining and maintaining academic support for the institutional open access repository Martin Borchert Associate Director, Library Services (Information Resources and Research Support) Queensland University of Technology Library Paula Callan eResearch Access Coordinator Queensland University of Technology Library CRICOS No. 00213J
Agenda • About QUT • The importance of open access • Framework for research support • History of QUT ePrints • Advocacy • Policy • Library roles • Staff development • Information, promotion, training and support • Populating the repository • System integration • Usage statistics • Citation data • The future
Open access • OA for access • OA for equity • OA for speeding the research cycle • OA for developing collaborations • OA for increased citation rate • OA for increased impact • Green and Gold OA
Framework for research support • Library and ITS collaboration • Associate Director (Information Resources and Research Support) • Associate Director (High Performance Computing and Research) • Library Research Support Team • Research Support Committee • 8 of 26 Liaison Librarians have a lead role in research support
Framework for research support • Researcher Support Strategy • Welcome • Research skills • Consultations • Scholarly publishing • ePrints • Data management • Collaboration • Research impact • Computation • Data processing • Analysis • Visualisation
Advocacy • Executives • University Research and Innovation Committee • Research Support Committee • At all levels • Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) • CAUL Research Advisory Committee http://aoasg.org.au/
Policy • The following materials must be included in QUT ePrints • refereed research articles and conference papers at the post-peer review stage) • digital theses submitted by research higher degree candidates • The following materials may be included in QUT ePrints • refereed research articles and conference papers at the pre-peer review stage (author's submitted manuscript) with corrigenda added following peer review if necessary • books and book chapters • un-refereed research literature • creative works with a research component • descriptions of research data and datasets • research outputs in the form of software or computer code. http://www.mopp.qut.edu.au/F/F_01_03.jsp
Library roles • Research Support Coordinator • Scholarly Communications Librarian • Repository Resource Librarian • Resource Assistants • Liaison Librarians • Applications and Development Team Leader • Programmer • Associate Director
Staff development • Research support seminars • Community of practice • Newsletter items • Train the trainer • Co-trainer • Peer assessment • Resources wiki
Information, promotion, training and support • Open access • Depositing into QUT ePrints • Scholarly communication • Gold open access • Open Access Week celebrations • Making connections: innovation in research at QUT • ePrints email support • Web information • AskQUT
Populating the repository • Self deposit vs mediated deposit • Scalability • Usability • Incentives
Support for research assessment Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) (quantitative assessment) http://www.innovation.gov.au/Research/ResearchBlockGrants/Pages/HigherEducationResearchDataCollection.aspx Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) (qualitative assessment) http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_2012/era_2012.htm
QUT ePrints • http://eprints.qut.edu.au/ • Mandate Policy since 2003 http://www.mopp.qut.edu.au/D/D_02_08.jsp • Self-deposit • GNU Eprints repository software
The future... • Automated ingest of records • Author name authority • NLA party identifiers • ORCID • Improved linking to academic profiles • Improved linking to data repository • Improved linking from QUT Media Warehouse creative works repository Wayback machine http://web.archive.org/web/20040508180558/http://eprints.qut.edu.au/