Here in the Directorate of Learning Resources at Oxford Brookes University, we are very pleased to have received the good news earlier this month that we have been selected as one of the 8 JISC OA Pathfinder projects to look into how we can help researchers in UK Universities conform with Open Access funder mandates.
Associate institutions:
Nottingham Trent University, University of Portsmouth
About the project
Our project will provide the infrastructure and processes to support researchers working within non research-intensive universities to conform to OA funder mandates. We will consider human behaviours and how engagement with OA processes can be improved, putting the researcher at the centre, building within and around the research context.
We will apply an ethnographic sense-making approach to work with, and observe, the researcher in their own context. The aim of this approach is to integrate with, rather than impose upon, the researcher and the research environment, enabling conformance with specific funder mandates as a part of the research workflow.
We will:
• Develop a methodology and create a toolkit for a researcher-centred approach.
• Create a dataset from our investigation of researcher working practices
• Communicate with the wider OA community via an iterative case study and
hosting a workshop for the OA Implementers Community.
• Release all project outputs via open access under a Creative Commons license
Project Timeline - June 2014 -May 2016
Making sense:a researcher centred approach to funder mandates
Lead Institution: Oxford Brookes University
Project Director: Stuart Hunt shunt@brookes.ac.uk
Project Manager: Rowena Rouse rrouse@brookes.ac.uk
Associate institutions:
Nottingham Trent University, University of Portsmouth
About the project
Our project will provide the infrastructure and processes to support researchers working within non research-intensive universities to conform to OA funder mandates. We will consider human behaviours and how engagement with OA processes can be improved, putting the researcher at the centre, building within and around the research context.
We will apply an ethnographic sense-making approach to work with, and observe, the researcher in their own context. The aim of this approach is to integrate with, rather than impose upon, the researcher and the research environment, enabling conformance with specific funder mandates as a part of the research workflow.
We will:
• Develop a methodology and create a toolkit for a researcher-centred approach.
• Create a dataset from our investigation of researcher working practices
• Communicate with the wider OA community via an iterative case study and
hosting a workshop for the OA Implementers Community.
• Release all project outputs via open access under a Creative Commons license
Project Timeline - June 2014 -May 2016
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Q2/14
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Q3/14
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Q4/14
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Q1/15
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Q2/15
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Q3/15
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Q4/15
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Q1/16
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Create project
blog
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Conduct research and gather data
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Disseminate
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Create researcher-based toolkit
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Launch of
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Host OA community workshop
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Evaluate toolkit and
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Launch roadshows
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