ruth harrison navigating the scholarly communications workflow supporting researchers at imperial...
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LibraryServices
Navigating the scholarly communications workflow: supporting researchers at Imperial College London Library
JIBS conference, Friday 8th July
Ruth Harrison, Head of Scholarly Communications [email protected]@ruthej
TodayOur research support services:• open access publishing• research data management• education
Challenges delivering those services:• funders• researchers• administration• metadata
Imperial College LondonNine London campuses
Faculties of Engineering,Medicine, Natural Sciencesand the Business School
Ranked 3rd in Europe / 8th in theworld (THE 2015-16 rankings)
Net income (2014): £969m, incl. £428m research grants and contracts
15,000 students, 8,000 staff, incl. 3,900 academic & research staff
Staff publish 10-12,000 scholarly articles per year
Average quarterly APC commitment: £433 533 (2015 from 3 funds)
Library ServicesCentral Library, 6 libraries at medical campuses & Silwood Park
Over 170,000 online resources & over 5m full text article requests in 2014/15
92% resource budget spend on e-resources
1,658 hours of teaching to 17,148 attendees in 2014-15
Challenges?
REF
Funders…
Institutional OA Fund
Researcher
Other Funder
Institution
Publisher with OA Option
Open AccessPublisher
Central/subjectRepository
Institutional Repository
?
?
Mandate
RCUK
Funding
Mandate
Institutional Database
Institutional OA Fund
Researcher
Other Funder
Institution
Publisher with OA Option
Open AccessPublisher
Central/subjectRepository
Institutional Repository
?
?
Mandate
RCUK
Funding
Mandate
Institutional Database
From Bill Hubbard, Getting the rights right: when policies collide http://www.slideshare.net/UKSG/hubbard-uksg-may2015-public
Researchers
Administration and bureaucracy
(some of) What we’re doing…
Library Services: research support
Scholarly Communications Management team
Open access publishing
The volume of research outputs we potentially have to manage
The increase in deposits to the repository
Research data management
Education support
Copyright and licensing
None of this is in isolation
Combined green and gold workflow
On acceptance• Deposit• Apply
for APC• Link
funding
Manuscript into
repository
APC data intoASK OA
Compliance with green &
gold mandates
in one step
Managed through Symplectic (+ASK OA)Ask for minimum information required
RDM service infrastructure development
1. Make a data management plan: use DMPOnline
2. Store your data management plan centrally: use InfoEd
3. Store your live data securely and safely: use Box
4. Store your final data (and/or code) for 10+ years, making it publicly available: use Zenodo
5. Tell the College where your data (and/or code) is published or stored: use Symplectic
6. Reference your funding and your data in the publications it underpins: tell your publisher
Research Project
Data: BoxSoftware: GitHub
Data/software still needed Delete
External repositoryInternal Storage
Elements
Spiral
Creates data/software
Project ends
no
yes
Metadata, manualor automatic
Can it be published or embargoed externally?
yesno
Metadata, manualor automatic
Can metadata be published?
Library reviews
yes
Communications strategy for OA, RDM and ORCID
ImageFebruary8th Feb FRC Medicine Meeting OA update, including compliance RO
18th Feb Liaison librarians Meeting OA update LibraryFeb Academic staff Email Email to staff who have never deposited to Spiral Library/ROFeb Academic staff Department
meetingsHEFCE policy and College OA support Library/RO
Feb HoDs Email Report on compliance levels (OA Monitor) Library/ROFeb Electrical
EngineeringMeetings OA/RDM lunchtime session Library
Feb DoMs Email Data catalogue guide LibraryFeb/Mar Symplectic
delegatesMeetings Arranging 1:1 with those who are delegates for researcher/authors in Symplectic to ensure understanding of
what is required.Library
March
14th Mar Liaison librarians Meeting OA update Library14th Mar
(tbc)DOMs & ROMs Meeting HEFCE policy and compliance meeting Library
9th Mar Civ Eng Meeting Presentation at staff assembly (JC/NM) Library16th Mar Civ Eng Roadshow Library
Mar Staff and students Website HEFCE implementation and OA service available: update for lead to 1st April LibraryMar Academic staff Department
meetingsHEFCE policy and College OA support Library/RO
Mar OA supporters Meeting HEFCE implementation, support, networking Library/ROMar HoDs Email Report on compliance levels (OA Monitor) Library/ROMar PhDs Workshop Intro to RDM 2 hr workshop for PhDs LibraryMar OA Team Meetings Organising a series of ‘roadshow’ visits – not a meeting but table promoting what is happening to raise
awarenessLibrary
Mar Symplectic delegates
Meetings Arranging 1:1 with those who are delegates for researcher/authors in Symplectic to ensure understanding of what is required.
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