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Getting an Octopus into a String Bag
The complexity of communicating with the research community across a higher education institution
Dr Danny KingsleyResearch 2 Reader 15 February 2016
The OA policy landscape
Three sets of rules in the UK. They are all different.
The MEANS and the TIMING all conflict
RCUK – Green & Gold | HEFCE – Green only | COAF – Gold only
In place since 2011
The principles might be common…
What the researcher hears
From Bill Hubbard Getting the rights right: when policies collidehttp://www.slideshare.net/UKSG/hubbard-uksg-may2015-public
First let’s talk some numbers
The numbers are huge
Cambridge research
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/research_in_numbers.pdf
HEFCE potentially requires us to collect ALL papers
• Don’t know how many we need to aim for…
• Cambridge published approximately 8,000 articles and reviews in 2015
• We received 3,370 articles in 2015
Academia is tribal
‘Invisible colleges’ relate to the community people have with their
discipline – this is NOT their institution
Disciplinary Tribes
And they have no time
• Study in Cambridge of researchers showed they have about 20 minutes to devote to anything– ‘What does a researcher do all day?’ -
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=515
• There are very few points in the publishing process where the researcher intersects with the institution– Publishing Experience Maps
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252889
This is Cambridge’s structure
One School
There isn’t room on this slide for the three Institutes that are also associated with this School…
A whole other tribal system
http://www.cam.ac.uk/for-staff/features/colleges-and-university-a-complex-relationship
And then there is the administration
You Tube Cambridge in Numbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZsb2CkMsM
Ironic – where academic independence is sacred
Bloody hell
Confusing and complicated policy landscapeAcademics hostile towards being told what to do
A huge and unconnected institution
How we cut through the noise
Upload your accepted manuscript – and tell us a bit about it
Huge engagement programme
Constant outreachTwitter: @CamOpenData @CamOpenAccess
Newsletter sign up: www.data.cam.ac.uk www.osc.cam.ac.uk
Blog: https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk
Postcards & banners
All promotional materials can be downloaded from www.lib.cam.ac.uk/librarians/oa/oa_promo.html
We will do ANYTHING!
Email signatures sent to all departmental administrators and librarians
Drop-in sessions across campus
Resorting to bribery!
So, how are we doing?
Depends on how you look at it
As at 5th Feb 2016
But lots of our research is OA
• About 56% of all eligible research available– Springer Compact – all publications OA– arXiv.org – developing compliance– Considerable no. works published OA
• Other projects– Unlocking Theses programme– Academic-led publishing programme
Academics uninterested• In 2015 - 93 papers published in Nature, Science, Cell, The
Lancet and PNAS• 33% of these papers were already HEFCE compliant• Of the remaining non-compliant papers we contacted 47
authors, made them aware of the HEFCE open access policy, and invited them to submit their accepted manuscript to the Open Access Service.
• Less than 40% of contacted authors sent their accepted manuscript.
• Therefore, even after direct intervention only 49% papers were HEFCE compliant
• Could the HEFCE policy be a Trojan Horse for gold OA?https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=488
Confusing communications
• Submitting a publication to the repository are different to submissions of publications to ResearchFish at the end of a grant– Research Operations Office run grants– Office of Scholarly Communications runs Open
Access– Research Data Facility runs Research Data
Management– Research Strategy Office runs the REF return
Last ditch?
• Pushing to have a staff member employed for a year to find out:– Who is saying what to researchers– How they are saying it – When they are saying it
• We need to have joined up communications that use the correct language, are timely and helpful
There are no guarantees in this game
Dr Danny KingsleyHead of Scholarly Communication
Cambridge University [email protected]
www.osc.cam.ac.uk@dannykay68
