cris power! taming the service requirements of open access
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CRIS POWER! Taming the service requirements of open access
David Walters - Open Access Officer, Blogger at Brunel University London
http://openfutures.blogspot.co.uk/
@dav_eye uk.linkedin.com/in/DavidJWalters
[email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-2994-8546
What’s a CRIS?• CRIS – Current Research
Information System – a database
• Monitors academic output and brings together with local business systems
• Group data by department, research group or author
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A record of academic output
Discussion Points
(1) Challenges: Taming the service requirements
The imbalance in the roles that support service requirements:
1. Advocacy/Facilitation roles in open access
2. Advocacy is better placed to support cultural change in open research practices.
3. The new support roles are imbalanced and therefore unable to properly support services in the new research landscape. The advocacy role is displaced by administrative overheads
(2) Solutions: CRIS POWER:
CRIS led data management to support service requirements
1. We can make better use of open access data services to support the facilitation process
2. This will naturally rebalance roles and maximise our advocacy contribution to our local research communities.
Roles supporting service requirements
• Post Finch• Advocacy – cultural change
• Facilitators - administration
WorkshopsFostering
engagement
Copyright
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• From ‘Open Access Week’ to ‘Open Access Every Week’
• Leading cultural change in their communities
Advocates of Open Access
Serving local communities:The true role of Research Support staff
Facilitators of open access5
• Report driven:– External Reports to RCUK, COAF, JISC etc.– Internal progress reports
• Request driven:– Administering payment– Budget management– Repository workflows
• 2hrs to process an APC –– SPARC Europe / London Higher commissioned
report ‘Counting the Costs of Open Access in the UK’ (2014)
An administrative burden
Taming the service requirements
• Our roles of advocacy and facilitation need to be rebalanced
• Only advocacy can change the local community culture
• Facilitation has taken precedence with services struggling to scale against competing requirements and a growing user base.
Challenges in a new landscape
CRIS led data management to support service requirements
• CRIS - What’s the approach?– Bring CRIS together with OA
data sources
• CRIS - Why?– Curtail administration
– Scalability
– Make process accessible
– Data Analysis
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Solutions: Our approach
Open access bite size
Funder
Publisher
Discounts
Finance
Subject Repository
Requests
Research Publications
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Institutional repository
• Open Access can broken down into components
• Data in web resources
• Data in business systems
• Bring data sources within our existing infrastructure
Local / External community resources
CRIS POWER – Level 1 – Live & Local
• CRIS – Current Research Information System
• Effective data management approach brings this together with open access data sources
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Enhanced publications record
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CRIS POWER – Level 2 - Transactional
11Structure data to supports requests
CRIS POWER – Level 3 - Global1
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Identify funded Outputs from Scopus/WOS affiliations
Live, dynamic reports:
Larger scale - Research Publications
Live, dynamic reports:
Research Publications
Live, dynamic reports:
Finances
In the workflow, costs are:
1. Estimated2. Soft commitment3. Hard commitment
Reflections
• Other dedicated web based components will form the architecture of new, innovative support services
• Services to help drive impact and promote research discovery
Infographic promoting the AltMetrics of open access outputs in the CRIS over open access week
In closing
• Our roles must be rebalanced in order to affect the cultural change we wish to see within our institutions
• This can be achieved through
effective data management
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CRIS POWER! Taming the service requirements of open access
Fin –Affiliations, contact details, credits
Slide 1 NC Reuse ‘Lion taming’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_taming
Slide 3/8 Rights for use in presentations purchased from Cartoonstock.com
Slide 5 NC Reuse
Slide 5 SPARC Europe / London Higher commissioned report ‘Counting the Costs of Open Access in the UK’ (2014)
Slide 6 NC Reuse ‘Tug of War’ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Tug_of_war_2.jpg/800px-Tug_of_war_2.jpg
Slide 10 JISC ‘Cohesive Stategy for Shared Repository Services’
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