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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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