Advocacy at the University of Huddersfield: Making research visible to a world audience Graham Stone Repository Manager Kultivate Advocacy Workshop 28 February 2011 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

Scores on the doors Total items –8531 items –2684 full text records –31% full text Non textual items –261 items –59 full text –23% full text The REF is about to change this!

University Repository Survey As part of International Open Access week the Repository Team organised a survey on the attitudes of staff and researchers to open access and the Repository 114 responses were received in total With thanks to the RSP and DataShare at the University of Edinburgh edinburgh/

General Information

Views on Open Access Recommendation In general, advocacy needs to concentrate on how to make research outputs available on open access rather the arguments for or against

University Repository 96% of respondents had heard of the University Repository 75% were currently making the metadata of their research available in the Repository as a minimum (14% did not reply to this question)

Items available Item TypeNo. of replies* Journal articles:86 Book chapters:37 Books:13 Monographs, e.g. working papers, reports etc.:26 Conference papers:56 Shows/exhibitions:7 Performances:5 Art work:4 Sound/video recordings:6 Data sets2 Other8 *multiple types could be selected for this question

Depositing research (1) 27% of replies stated that they self deposited items into the Repository 62% did not; the majority of these sent them directly to the Repository Team This backs up anecdotal evidence that self depositing is often seen as confusing or too time consuming

Depositing research (2) 94% of respondents did not use an alternative to the Repository Of those that did, 100% also deposited in the University Repository In 5a, 86% were in favour of putting research into an Open Access repository Clearly there is a discrepancy between those that agree it is a good idea and those that do it

Depositing research (3) Recommendation –Make staff and researchers aware of how to self deposit material in the Repository –Investigate alternative methods using Web 2.0 technologies to make the adding of items to the repository more straightforward

Copyright Recommendation –Further advocacy required on author’s rights and alternative copyright agreements

Recommendations and next steps The 8 recommendations were approved by the University Research Group on 16 February 2011 To be taken forward to create a comprehensive advocacy plan in conjunction with the Research and Enterprise Directorate as part of the CLS Support for Research Action Plan

Giving the right message

Why put your research into the Repository? Visibility –Showcasing your work We can link to your content/websites We can add photos in different resolutions etc. Preservation –Gallery content disappear! –Personal websites can go down

Does Scholarly Research = Research Articles? 1/3 of RAE in Arts was text based 2/3 was ‘practice based’

‘Words are only context, not the final form’ Stephanie Meece, UAL

So what do we need from you? You may have something born digital Or a representation of an event Or (more likely) a combination –Film –Still posters –Flyers and promotions –Text or links to reviews –Accompanying text

It is OK to add stuff months after the event! Outputs can vary – they can alter as they travel?

Include the process –Thinking through –Sketchbooks –Models etc. These are part of the research process But there is no final version!

Measuring success 76,573 full text downloads in the last 12 months

Tracking usage

Copyright There is an advantage over journal articles –You own the copyright! We can help you protect it

Graham Stone This presentation Report on the University Repository Survey, October-November 2010.Report on the University Repository Survey, October-November Research Report. University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield. University Repository Survey Data, October-November 2010.University Repository Survey Data, October-November [Dataset] I've also had a number of international scholars and research students read my articles and listen to the music I have available in the repository, as a result, I am now pursuing collaborative research projects with music studios and researchers in Mexico and Norway. Monty Adkins Over to you…