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Context. Large, R esearch-led Russell Group Institution 32,000 students (11,000 postgrad) Over 6000 academic staff 1753 FTE returned for REF 2014 Early-adopter for OA, repository since 2003 PURE u sed as main IR DSpace used for PhD theses 29,543 items in total.

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  1. Context • Large, Research-led Russell Group Institution • 32,000 students (11,000 postgrad) • Over 6000 academic staff • 1753 FTE returned for REF 2014 • Early-adopter for OA, repository since 2003 • PURE used as main IR • DSpace used for PhD theses • 29,543 items in total

  2. Open Access Implementation Programme - 2013 • RCUK “pump-priming” grant - £609,000 • Employed over 20 part-time publications assistants to populate PURE • 16,000 papers added to PURE • Staff cost £530,000 • Average cost £33.12 per article

  3. RCUK Compliance – An Example • 64% of RCUK-funded journal articles and conference proceedings OA* • 44% Green OA, 56% Gold OA • 246 Gold articles paid for, averaging £1612 • 50% of Yr. 1 block grant spent *We suspect that MOST of the 36% non-OA papers probably could have been made OA, but authors omitted to do this.

  4. Current Model for Support • Scholarly Communications Team • 4 FTE, based in the library (mixed grades) • Humanities & Social Sciences • 1x Open Access Advisor (grade 6) • Medicine & Veterinary Medicine • 1x Publications Administrator (grade 5) • Science & Engineering • Work devolved to School admin staff

  5. Concerns (I) • Speed of change - RCUK gave us 5 years to get to 75% compliance for a subset of our research • Significant cultural change is required • No margin for error

  6. Concerns (II) • The biggest risk is not knowing about publications either until they are published (or not at all?!) • PURE modifications due for launch in June 2015, 10 months ahead of the deadline

  7. What are we doing? • Gaining support from University SMT • Planning a marketing programme to launch in Open Access Week • Planning significant outreach activities • Performance review will include OA section • Updating systems • Modifying workflows • Sharing best practice (LOCH) • New models of responsibility?

  8. LOCH Project • Joint Project with Heriot-Watt & St Andrews • Preparing PURE for OA in REF • Web templates, licensed for re-use • Guidance papers, shared experience

  9. References University of Edinburgh RCUK/BIS Open Access Expenditure Report https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/8288 University of Edinburgh RCUK Open Access Report 2014 https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/9386 Lessons in Open Access Compliance in Higher Education (LOCH) http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/loch/ Contact: dominic.tate@ed.ac.uk 0131 6515279

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