UQ Open Access Service - Pilot

Roll out of the UQ Open Access service, managed by the UQ Library and the Office of the DVC(R), will be piloted during July-September 2013. The pilot will start work on capturing the scholarly publications of researchers from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), the School of Business and the School of Languages & Comparative Cultural Studies.

The pilot will seek to:
1. Ensure UQ compliance with NHMRC and ARC mandates (already in effect); 2. Encourage self-archiving of researcher publications in eSpace; 3. Establish efficient workflows and centralised support that minimises compliance overhead for researchers; 4. Negotiate UQ-specific agreements with key publishers (e.g., Elsevier), to facilitate bulk deposits to eSpace;

Based on the scholarly output at the pilot sites we will report on the number of peer reviewed articles published since the period July 2012 based on NHMRC funding, the number of other peer reviewed articles and the number of other scholarly outputs that are available for OA. The pilot will be based on UQ eSpace metadata entries for each of the pilot sites. The report will include the OA status/options for each publication and report upon the trends that are identified.

For help regarding open access publishing at UQ queries can be sent to openaccess@library.uq.edu.au

blog written by Lisa Kruesi