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Cost estimates of an open access mandate for monographs in the UK’s third Research Excellence Framework
No full textThe recent ‘Consultation on the second Research Excellence Framework’ (REF) in the UK contains an annex that signals the extension of the open access mandate to monographs. In the service of promoting discussion, rather than prescribing a forward route, this article estimates the costs of implementing such a mandate based on REF 2014 volume, taking the criteria signalled in the annex, and identifies funding sources that could support it. We estimate that to publish 75% of anticipated monographic submission output for the next REF would require approximately £96m investment over the census period. This is equivalent to £19.2m per year. Academic library budgets as they are currently apportioned would not support this cost. However, these sums are but a fraction of the total quality-related funding, Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council budgets. We close with a series of provocative suggestions for how the mandate could be implemented
Principles for Effective Assessment and Feedback
No full textSome principles relating to effective assessment and feedback from Jisc funded ESCAPE projec
Implementing resource discovery techniques at the Museum of English Rural Life and Special Collections, University of Reading
No full textDeveloping digital capability: an organisational framework
No full textDeveloping digital capability: an organisational framework
This is an organisational perspective on the Jisc ‘Six elements of digital capability’
Digital learner story: Victoria
No full textDigital learner story: Victoria
Victoria is a 20-year-old first-year student at the University of Southampton. She has completed a Foundation Art course and is currently doing a BA in Fashion and Marketing. Victoria receives DSA (Disabled Students' Allowance) after being assessed for dyslexia and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Hull College Group: Thought leadership interview with Michelle Swithenbank, deputy chief executive
No full textThought leadership interview with Michelle Swithenbank, deputy chief executive (January 2017
It’s the workflows, stupid! What is required to make ‘offsetting’ work for the open access transition
No full textThis paper makes the case for stronger engagement of libraries and consortia when it comes to negotiating and drafting offsetting agreements. Two workshops organized by the Efficiencies and Standards for Article Charges (ESAC) initiative in 2016 and 2017 have shown a clear need for an improvement of the current workflows and processes between academic institutions (and libraries) and the publishers they use in terms of author identification, metadata exchange and invoicing. Publishers need to invest in their editorial systems, while institutions need to get a clearer understanding of the strategic goal of offsetting. To this purpose, strategic and practical elements, which should be included in the agreements, will be introduced. Firstly, the Joint Understanding of Offsetting, launched in 2016, will be discussed. This introduces the ‘pay-as-you-publish’ model as a transitional pathway for the agreements. Secondly, this paper proposes a set of recommendations for article workflows and services between institutions and publishers, based on a draft document which was produced as part of the 2nd ESAC Offsetting Workshop in March 2017. These recommendations should be seen as a minimum set of practical and formal requirements for offsetting agreements and are necessary to make any publication-based open access business model work