Be a Leader and Champion of Open Access on Campus to provide wider and easier access to library contents and research output of faculty members, with a view to raise the University’ visibility and standing.

 Lack of resources that are open access  Lack of visibility of the university in the World University Ranking as top 5 universities in 5 years  UAL are deemed individualistic and not collaborative  Funding are reduced, leading to lack of purchasing power  Still investing heavily in print rather than electronic resources

Strength Huge collection of local materials in print Long history Well-trained and loyal staff Population: 14,000 students and 3,000 faculty members Weakness Reduces funding – reduced purchasing power Space inflexible Opportunities Able to have joint purchasing and sharing of catalogue records New chancellor, new fund investing Threats Deemed individualistic Not collaborative with library coalition and other university departments

 To help the university to attain its goal of becoming one of the top 5 university of the Asia Pacific region in 5 years’ time.  It is proposed that UAL leads and champions the OA movement on campus

 Form Scholarly communication committee comprising the following sub-committee:  Establish institutional repository  Bibliometric team  create awareness in bibliometric  Outreach & Marketing team  Educate faculty/researchers about OA, where to publish etc.

 For wider and easier access to libraries digitalized content and research output of faculty members  A platform for all the people outside the institute to see the research output of the researcher

 Collaboration with IT team e.g. DSPACE  Identify a champion – eg. Vice Provost (Research) – encourage Research paper submission  Involvement with Vendors: ◦ Web of Science ◦ Scopus ◦ Google Scholar

 Bibliometric workshop for researchers ◦ Targeting on young researchers and postgraduate students as well as academic staff  Workshop on copyrights and patents  Online tutorials on citation  Introduce some Open access organizations like Scholarly Publishing and academic Resource Coalition (SPARC)  Online submission into repository system  Researcher visibility ◦ Create researcher profiler  Web of Science(Researcher ID)  Google Scholar  ORCID

 Invite speakers from well-known publishers to talk about publishing,Eg. Elsevier, Springer  Introductory Talks on OA ◦ Gold OA - Academics are able to published their research publication at peer-reviewed journals which are either open access or open access subscription-based journals. Eg. DOAJ, Springer ◦ Green OA - Academics are able to upload their pre-published version (Author Original Manuscript) of their research into the repository system ◦ Benefits of OA to the university and faculty  Introduction of more open access journals to academics (DOAJ):

 Increase visibility for research article via Google Analytics  More researchers publish in OA journals  Feedback from user survey