1. RSP Update Dominic Tate RSP Summer School Madingley Hall, June 2010
RSP Project Co-ordinator
RSP Summer School Madingley Hall, June 2010

2. Overview RSP Activities Research Communications Strategy UKCoRR
The Future…

3. RSP Activities Targeted outreach and support completed:
Birmingham City University
University of Worcester
Northumbria University
Titus Salt School
Scottish Visits (Scottish Agricultural College, University of St Andrews, University of Aberdeen ,UHI Millennium Institute, University of Abertay Dundee)
Southampton Solent University
University of Staffordshire
St George’s – University of London
London South Bank University
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Brunel University

4. RSP Activities Events planning And coming up…
Communication Skills for Effective Advocacy
Preservation for Repository Practitioners
The RSP Summer School
And coming up…
Training event for repository administrators
‘Doing it differently’ – Different types of repositories
Software/Technical Fair
Winter School 2010/2011!!

5. RSP Activities Recruitment of two further posts for RSP
Jackie Wickham – Open Access Advisor
Rob Ingram – Technical Development Officer
Review and update of existing outputs (briefing papers, website etc)

6. Research Communications Strategy Work
Forthcoming Report by Alma Swan into the economics of open access
Dissemination event for Senior Management
Follow-up events for different groups including repository managers
Grant funding period extension
Up to 2% of costs made available for publication charges only for 18 months
Other work includes involvement with joint RLUK/SCONUL scholarly communications group

7. UKCoRR United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories
Memorandum of Understanding between repository managers and publishers
“Vibrant and non-confrontational” mailing list
New Committee
Graham Stone (Chair)
Nicky Cashman (Secretary)
Dominic Tate (Web & Publicity)
Paul Stainthorp (External Liaison)
Nick Sheppard (Technical)

8. The Future… More of the same!
Refreshed, contemporary information in briefing papers and on the web
Fresh events programme
Increased technical support
Project set to continue until March 2012
More focussed support
Get in touch!

9. Dominic Tate