In response to feedback from academics early in 2015, when interviewing them as part of our Jisc Pathfinder project, we found a clear demand for a one page simple message for what they need to do. This resulted in a promotional poster designed (and re-designed!) in consultation with academics. We originally used a slightly adapted version of HEFCE’s poster. aimed at raising awareness. You may have seen it feature in Jisc’s newsletter.
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| Version 1 based on Hefce poster |
However, by October we had already re-designed this based on
feedback to create a much simpler version, which focuses on the one key message.
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| Open Access Poster and Flowchart |
This is available on our website, and has also been
printed and distributed to academics and put up on notice boards within
faculties.
In
a similar way, we tried to make sure the appearance of our Research
Portal, launched in August 2015, wouldn't put academics off. This is the public front end to our Pure
CRIS, and we worked with Elsevier to ensure a clear and attractive site. It’s
far easier to ‘sell’ a website to academics that looks professional and tidy,
compared to one that looks dated and cluttered. I know this sounds really
obvious, but I get a sense it’s sometimes underestimated. It’s still early
days, but feedback so far has been good and the Portal has given us a clear
focal point for finding out about Portsmouth research.
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