Contents
- Introduction and overview
- Toolkit: for researchers
- Introduction: open access
- What is open access?
- What are repositories?
- What are open access journals?
- How do repositories and open access journals relate to each other?
- What's the point, and why should I bother?
- Legal issues
- How to deposit
- What you need to do to engage with open access
- Funding bodies and open access
- Local institutional repository contact details
- Introduction: open access
- Toolkit: for institutions and repository managers
- Why develop an institutional repository?
- Repository costing models
- Build your own
- Outsourcing
- The Scottish situation
- Policies
- Legal issues
- Licenses
- Publisher policies
- Author final versions
- Publisher embargoes
- Take-down procedures
- Other legal areas
- Repository deposit workflow
- Ingest
- Copyright
- Coversheet
- File conversion
- Metadata check
- Introducing change at your institution:
mandates
- Why institutional mandates can be a good idea
- Types of material we are talking about
- How to go about introducing a mandate in your institution
- Soft mandate
- Identification stage
- Preparation stage
- Implementation
- Hard mandate
- Funding body policies on open access
- The Wellcome Trust
- Research Councils UK
- Advocacy and engagement
- The message
- Getting the message across
- Key advocacy issues raised by academics
- Getting some content in
- Mandating deposit
- Key factors for success
- The power of usage statistics
- Ongoing advocacy strategies
- Useful resources
- Publicity material
- Sample copyright permission seeking text
- Documents for making the case for an institutional open access mandate
- Sample open access advocacy presentations
- Sample coversheet for articles
- Open access and institutional repositories: some useful links