Open Access life cycle
During the mapping process, we were particularly influenced by the following slide from Neil Jacobs.
So much so, that we have used this as a basis for our open access life cycle, which is an attempt to bring this together with OAWAL, Jisc OA/above campus services, publisher services and the Institutional workflow.
In the centre circle, we have used the 7 stages of the publishing process as described by Neil, this is followed by institutional processes – of course not all institutions will have all of these processes up and running, e.g. we don’t all have a CRIS. We then included publisher services that directly impact upon the work of the open access team and also Jisc OA services. We then went on to map Jisc OA and above campus services to the life cycle – doing this we immediately found an issue with Publication Router, which is why we have included it twice, once where it currently affects the life cycle and once where we think it should sit – at point of acceptance. Finally, we added the 6 sections of OAWAL showing where we think that fits with the life cycle.
This is very much a first draft of the life cycle and again, we would very much welcome comment on what we have done so far.
OAWAL will also add the life cycle and ask for comment; there will also be a US version, which will not only be useful to the US librarians but also as a comparison between the two countries.
We’ve started with the library view – where should we go from here? There are a few things that the life cycle doesn’t show, and again we welcome comment.
- It doesn’t show the relationship between the different circle – we didn’t want to over complicate things
- In addition it doesn’t show things from the researchers point of view, e.g. the research dissemination workflow
- Or the OA policy workflow
- And finally, we mention the publishing workflow, but we only mention what is relevant to open access workflows, for example, we deliberately omit the peer review process
We hope to blog something about the OA policy side very soon and we hope to link this up with PASTEUR4OA. Something else we would really like to do is to map the researcher life cycle in relation to OA so that we can understand how we can embed OA to support researcher’s dissemination.
What we would really like are some guest bloggers on the subject above to help us make a start. We may end up with lots of interesting life cycles!