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Peer-assisted academic development in higher education
No full textPetchaKutcha presentation from Jasper Shotts, dean of Lincoln Academy of Learning and Teaching, University of Lincoln presented at digital experience insights community of practice event held at Staffordshire University on 06 November 2019
Appendices for digital experience insights survey 2019: findings from students in UK further and higher education
No full textAppendices to accompany the 2019 student digital experience insights report
The significant difference in impact: an exploratory study about the meaning and value of metrics for open access monographs
No full textThis paper analyses usage statistics, citation data and altmetrics from a university press publishing Open Access monographs. This data is then compared to the outcome of a survey of attitudes and behaviours among authors and editors who have published Open Access books. The metrics indicate that downloads and citation depend on the content of the book and the community of practice within each specific discipline. The altmetric data indicate how users interact with the published books online. The data suggests, despite the small sample, that authors could become more aware of the type of metrics available and how they can be interpreted. Further studies are needed, and publishers of Open Access books are encouraged to share data for benchmarking and development of best practices
Mainstreaming open e-books: transforming culture, services and practices to acquire open?
No full textWorkshop held at the 10th NAG Collection Development seminar: Streamlining and Futureproofing your Collection held 15 May 2019, Birmingham
Libraries have played an important role in facilitating the transition to open scholarship within their institutions: providing advocacy, advice and support for Funder Open Access policies, and developing research data management and open scholarship services.
However, much of this support has focussed on subscription publishing and the transition to OA journals. Furthermore, the tipping point for e-journals has long since passed. Monographs are still predicated by print, the tipping point to ‘e’ may never happen. Therefore, open e-books are less well developed, and this is never truer than in the library supply chain. Open is not embedded into the culture, workflows and practices that are used as part of the book acquisition process.
As part of a landscape study on New University Presses (NUPs) and Academic-Led Publishing (ALP), Rupert Gatti (Open Book Publishers) explains that this is an issue for many open access book publishers and that it would be helpful to have a service that “looks at how to bring academic content into the catalogues and the digital learning environments of the universities and to allow universities to also relate back to the publisher, so that there is a flow of information going back both ways”.
In order to take recommendations from this report forward, a community workshop was held in July 2018 to surface issues for the following problem statement:
“OA publishers have difficulty accessing the channels that library acquisition departments use to buy print and e-book content”
The workshop brought together experts from NUPs, ALPs, book suppliers and distributors, metadata suppliers, libraries and other experts in OA publishing to discuss the above statement. The core aim of the workshop was to allow the experts to share their experiences and knowledge to get a better understanding of the supply chain and to gain insight into the problem statement. One of the outcomes was to look at the culture of libraries regarding the acquisition of open content. The workshop suggested that less attention is paid to open book content as it is ‘free’ and so perceived as less valuable.
The NAG workshop will introduce the issues raised above, before encouraging participants to consider, discuss and share best practice for the following questions:
• If we were to redesign our libraries around the premise of open rather than closed content, how would the library supply chain support open content?
• How do we drive our own ‘transition’ of culture, processes and services so that they’re built around open?
• How do we rethink how we demonstrate value for money for resources invested in open?
The workshop will also ask participants if they include open e-book content in library collection management and development policies, so open content is selected and acquired in the same way as purchased or subscribed, or even that the discovery of open material is prioritised over purchased.
Responses will be collated and made available to facilitate further discussion within the community and allow delegates to take away practical ideas to effect change within their own libraries
