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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators Complying with Funders' Policies Dr Simon Kerridge Director of Research Services University of Kent Chair Elect ARMA The Association of Research Managers and Administrators Implementing Open Access Funders’ policies
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators Outline ARMA Open Access Open Research / Open Science Funders Funder Mandates (Expectations) Academic Freedom Research Office Open Access Policy Implementation Strategy
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators Research Management and Administration RMAs manage and support research… Information (including about research outputs) Pre-award [proposals] (inc OA costs) Post-award [projects] (inc APCs) Development / Planning Strategy / Policy (inc OA, RDM) Assessment (REF) / Governance Metrics (including citations, etc) Research Students Page 3
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators Research Management and Administration RMA: where Universities central office, faculty office, research centre Research Institutes Other Research Performers E.g. Health Service, Companies Research Funders E.g. Research Councils, Charities, Companies, Government, European Commission Worldwide Page 4
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators ARMA Over 2,000 members Working with the Institute of Administrative Management (IAM) to develop a route to formal professional recognition Working with other sector bodies, including: RCUK, HEFCE (REF), Thomson Reuters, Elsevier, Vitae, UKCGE, AUA, PraxisUnico, AIRTO, Jisc, RIN, UKDS, DCC, RSP, … And internationally though INORMS www.arma.ac.uk
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators Context Open Access Finch Gold Green RCUK APC ROS / Fish H2020 REF2020 US, UN Citations Data Management EPSRC, DMP Open Science
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators Initial Issues Open Access… a good thing? Requirement [RCUK, Wellcome, FP, …] Increases citations Types of Open Access Gold (Hybrid) Green (gratis / libre) CC-BY [Next Slide] Restricts where publication can be made Affects academic freedom ‘Cost’ of administration Open Access Journals… Focus on Journal Articles… monographs… to come?
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators Creative Commons (CC-BY) [RCUK requirement] Others are free to: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to adapt the work to make commercial use of the work Under the following conditions: Attribution —must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) With the understanding that: Waiver, Public Domain Other Rights — In no way are any of the following rights affected by the license: Your fair dealing or fair use rights, or other applicable copyright exceptions and limitations; The author's moral rights; Rights other persons may have either in the work itself or in how the work is used, such as publicity or privacy rights.
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators OA Funding RCUK (from 1 st April 2013) No longer an eligible cost on new projects Block Grant (share of £30m) [+£10m infrastructure for top 30] Reporting (maybe through ROS, ResearchFish) Wellcome Block grant, or just ask! Eg. Royal Society of Chemistry Free (up to the value of subscription) Horizon 2020, REF2020? RCUK expects To pay (up to) 100% of a proportion of outputs (45% 75%) HEI to top up the difference Should you have a larger internal fund (eg Nottm)?
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators A Possible Policy Position OA Policy Support OA (and ‘Open Science’) – prefer Green [libre?] Institutional Repository Mandatory meta-data. Full Text where allowable CRIS Single process for Gold APC Internal ‘top-up’ – how much? Prioritise areas (eg RCUK, RSC) – how? Prioritise high quality articles – how? Journal lists? Managed by IS/RS? – independent? Encourage OA Journals? (eg feminists@law) Central support for Research Data Management? Jisc APC
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators Kent Example
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators Is your Policy equitable? How much will/should the institutional top up be? What about institutionally funded research? Who judges the quality? Academic Freedom? Who (which HEI) pays? How is the metadata stored (linked to projects) [CRIS?] What about the underlying research data? Can it be reported on to ROS, ResearchFish, …? Benchmarking of OA compliance? What other purposes will the information be used for? GtR, REF2020, RCUK funding, Impact, …? Current Issues
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators Cross University Group – asap! From all Faculties and (which?) Services Meet, discuss and propose a University position What is the University philosophy on OA? Engage more widely with academic staff Scope… OA, OR/OS, RDM…? Support Funding Monitor new policy(s) Iron out process issues Get on with it… OA is here to stay! http://www.researchinfonet.org/finch/quick-links/ more@jiscmail.ac.uk [Managing Open REsearch] In Summary
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Training Seminar The Professional Association of Research Managers and Administrators Questions s.r.kerridge@kent.ac.uk @SimonRKerridge How many bears in the presentation?
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