HHuLO Access – Hull, Huddersfield and Lincoln explore open access good practice - Chris Awre, University of Hull. This presentation was part of Repository Fringe 2014, which took place from 30th to 31st July 2014 in Edinburgh.

1. HHuLOA
Repository Fringe
Edinburgh, 31st July 2014

2. HHuLOA partners
Hull
Huddersfield
Lincoln
Open
Access
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3. HHuLOA partners
Chris Awre, Hull
(c.awre@hull.ac.uk)
Graham Stone, Huddersfield
(g.stone@hud.ac.uk)
Paul Stainthorp, Lincoln
(pstainthorp@lincoln.ac.uk)

4. HHuLOA will...
“...examine the role of open access in furthering
the development of research at the partner
institutions. The project will focus on good
practice in identifying and implementing a
range of open access initiatives across the
partners with the specific remit of furthering the
research interests of the partner institutions...”

5. Objectives
1. To establish a baseline starting point
2. To communicate the policy landscape internally and
understand research local strategy/policy
3. In that context, to review and define options for open access
service development
4. To enhance local systems to serve OA needs and embed
external services
5. To monitor the relationship between OA and research
development within the institutions
6. To report and reflect work to the community

6. The plan...
● Mutually get to know our different research environments better
● Mutually get to know our open access environments better
● Identify links between these to establish a baseline from which we can
develop
● Communicate open access policy landscape to research communities
using agreed advocacy messages and materials
○ Link to research strategy and development to establish relationship
● Use our knowledge of the open access landscape to identify best fit
open access services that can be implemented to best serve research
development
○ Jisc Monitor, IRUS-UK and British Library (re: rights) already lined
up

7. The plan 2
● Identify repository technical enhancements that will be required to
implement services
○ Working with EPrints and Fedora/Hydra communities (and other
projects where useful to focus need and priorities for development)
● Ask questions about links between OA and research developments
throughout project and identify answers with researchers
● Reflect findings on an ongoing basis through blog, OAWAL wiki, and event

8. June 2014
HHuLOA and welcome!
Blog: library.hud.ac.uk/hhuloa
Twitter hashtag #hhuloa

9. July - September 2014
Baseline OA practice case study
Context mapping
Describe current practice at three institutions
(Repeat every six months)

10. July - December 2014
Investigation and collaboration with services
outside universities with relevance to open
access
We will work with project and external
partners such as Jisc Monitor, IRUS-UK and
the British Library in the areas of APC
management, statistics and open access rights
management

11. July - December 2014
Definition of OA services that best meet
research strategy and development
Identification and coordination of repository
technical developments to enable
implementation of OA services to meet
research needs

12. April 2015
Event to highlight developments and get
feedback on next steps to ensure value of the
project for the community as a whole
Initial good practice guide for dissemination and
comment
Researcher feedback on value of OA to
research development

13. Throughout
Specific innovation projects
Monitoring and communicating policy
landscape as it evolves
Assessment of how open access supports
research strategy and development
Shifts from baseline to demonstrate impact of
OA

14. The benefits
● Demonstrable link between OA and research
strategy and development
o Linked to OA policy development
● Development of OA services that best serve a
research development context
● Enhanced repository functionality able to
support OA policy and research development
agendas

15. Thank you: any questions?
Chris Awre (c.awre@hull.ac.uk)
Graham Stone (g.stone@hud.ac.uk)
Paul Stainthorp (pstainthorp@lincoln.ac.uk)
Blog: library.hud.ac.uk/hhuloa
Twitter hashtag #hhuloa