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New issue of Teaching in Lifelong Learning

We are sending this post out a little belatedly, but Volume 4, Issue 1 of Teaching in Lifelong Learning is now available. This is the first online only issue of the journal and is now available on Open Access at:

http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/journal_till/

Articles include:

Crawley, Jim ‘On the brink’ or ‘designing the future’? Where next for Lifelong Learning Initial Teacher Education? DOI: 10.5920/till.2012.412.

Cushing, Ian Working Towards Professionalism: A Pathway Into The Post-Compulsory Community Of Practice. DOI: 10.5920/till.2012.4113.

Grayling, Ian, Commons, Kevin and Wise, John It’s The Curriculum, Stupid! DOI: 10.5920/till.2012.4121.

Walker, Martyn The Origins and Development of the Mechanics’ Institute Movement 1824 – 1890 and the Beginnings of Further Education. DOI: 10.5920/till/2012.4132.

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JournalTOCs

Teaching in Lifelong Learning is now listed in JournalTOCs.

JournalTOCs is the largest, free collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs): 17,493 journals (including 2,898 selected Open Access journals) from 962 publishers.

JournalTOCs is for researchers, students, librarians and anyone looking for the latest scholarly articles.

JournalTOCs alerts you when new issues of your Followed journals are published.

Find us at: http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/journalHomePage.php?id=23340&userID=0

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Announcing the HOAP Toolkit

One of the outcomes of the project was to develop a toolkit for other institutions to use, it features sections on:

  • Moving to Open Access
  • Setting up the landing pages using EPrints
  • Adding the content
  • Dissemination
  • Workflows
  • Setting up a new journal
  • Setting up a best of research title
  • Appendices
    1. Notes for contributors
    2. Licence to publish
    3. Notes for reviewers/Return Sheet – response to author(s)/response to editor
    4. Adding content to Teaching in Lifelong Learning
    5. Journal workflows
    6. Guidelines for the preparation of journal proposals
    7. Huddersfield Research Review (Draft proposal)

The toolkit can be found at: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/12239/

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Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice

We are also very please to announce that our journal Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice is in the process of being archived.

Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice was a joint publication between South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust and the University of Huddersfield. The journal ran for 8 very successful volumes appealing to a wide range of mental health practitioners, social care practitioners, researchers, educators, users of mental health services, carers, and voluntary sector workers.

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Teaching in Lifelong Learning

We are very pleased to announce that the latest volume of Teaching in Lifelong Learning is now live. We now have all 3 volumes available on Open Access.

The new pages feature a host of features including information for contributors, a licence to publish, a guide to the journals peer review process and more.

Each article now has a DOI to enable direct linking. In addition DOIs are being added to all article references allowing direct cross referencing. There is an RSS feed for the journal on the front page, each article also has a range of social media links so that users can share the content via FaceBook, Twtter, Gmail, LinkedIn etc.

References are also displayed as part of the metadata and usage statistics are available for every article.

Coming in 2012

All new journal content from volume 4 onwards will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

A new feature available early in the New Year will allow direct linking from the references displayed on the metadata page to the appropriate metadata content at other publishers.

It is also hoped to enable the SNEEP suite of social networking extensions to all journal (and University Repository) content early in the New Year – expect another blog post soon.

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Huddersfield Research Review

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We are just putting the finishing touches to the project. In the next couple of weeks you can expect the new online version of Teaching in Lifelong Learning and a toolkit showing how to create Open Access journals with EPrints.

First up, however, is the draft proposal for the Huddersfield Research Review. This draft has been sent to the University Research Committee for comment.

Huddersfield Research Review (Draft proposal)

We hope to set up an international editorial board early in 2012 and launch the journal later in the year.

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Auditing the University’s journals

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As part of the HOAP project’s sustainability planning, we aimed to audit the University Schools and Services for other journal titles and to use the outcomes of this project as best practice to develop and launch other titles.

After contacting our REF Unit of Assessment Coordinators, the Research Office and the University’s Teaching and Learning Institute we have now compiled a list of our journal titles

Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Research & Practice

http://www2.hud.ac.uk/hhs/mhrg/journal/index.php

The journal is a joint publication between South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust and the University of Huddersfield and is now in its 8th Volume. However, due to funding issues the title ceased with the latest issue. After discussions with the editor, we have committed to move the journal from its current web page to the new Repository platform after the HOAP project completes. As part of this we will assign DOIs in order to preserve the content.

Radar

http://www2.hud.ac.uk/ada/research2/RADAR.php

RADAR, the Review of Art, Design and Architecture Research, is published annually by the School of Art, Design and Architecture. It is intentionally compiled to highlight the growing range of researchers in the school and their broad research work and experiences from early career to established researchers. Its intention is to communicate and signal University research both internally and more importantly externally. One of its aims is to act as an open invitation for further collaborations in the education and creative industry sectors.

This title is now in its second volume and we hope to begin talks with the editors over the coming weeks.

CeReNeM

http://www2.hud.ac.uk/mhm/mmt/research/cerenem-journal/index.php

CeReNeM’s (Centre for Research in New Music) research team brings together researchers and artists at the cutting edge of contemporary music performance, composition and new sonic media. The journal is peer reviewed and acts as a forum for discourse surrounding the research projects and activities such as intoacoustics, sound spatialisation, digital interface technologies, improvisation, experimental performance practice, composition, sonic art, new notations, the study of musical perception, temporality, cross cultural aesthetics and interdisciplinary collaborations.

The journal has published two issues, the second featuring articles by postgraduate composers from across the UK and internationally.

We hope to meet with the editors to discuss the journal in the next few weeks.

North American Journal of Welsh Studies

http://welshstudiesjournal.org/index

The North American Journal of Welsh Studies was first published in 2001, it took a break between 2006 and 2010, but has now been re-launched at Huddersfield. It is published on behalf of the North American Association for the Study of Welsh History and Culture, a multidisciplinary association of scholars, teachers and individuals dedicated to advancing scholarship on Welsh studies.

The journal is using OJS, however, we have had a meeting with Professor Paul Ward, the journal’s editor, with a view to collaborating on best practice such as sharing notes for contributors, the licence to publish, etc. We hope to work with the team to look at assigning DOIs to the articles and registering the journal with the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE). Looking forward, it will be interesting to see how the two platform, OJS and Eprints compare.

Teaching and Learning Management Board

The project team gave a paper to the University’s Teaching and Learning Management Board this week on the progress of the HOAP project. The Teaching in Lifelong learning journal is partly funded by the University’s Teaching and Learning Institute (TALI). In the meeting it was agreed that a short article would be prepared for the in house newsletter, Teaching and Learning Matters, as part of the project dissemination, however, matters also turned to the future of the in house newsletter.

Teaching and Learning Matters (TLM)

http://www2.hud.ac.uk/news/tlm/archive/

It was agreed that TLM would benefit from being part of the suit of journals on the EPrints platform and also needed to be registered for an ISSN etc. The project will discuss this further with TALI with a view to moving the newsletter over to the new platform after the HOAP project has concluded.

New journals

There are a number of new titles currently under discussion in the University and it was agreed in the Management Board that those that fall under the remit of TALI will follow the guidelines set out in this project.

In addition, a policy document on University publications, including the University Press, Huddersfield Contemporary Records, departmental publications and journals is currently being drafted. The aim is to use the toolkit and workflows from this project to support this document.

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Social media

We have been experimenting with social media and web 2.0 tools and technologies at Huddersfield since 2005:

Stone, Graham (2011) Social Media in Computing and Library Services at the University of Huddersfield. Illuminea (7).

We plan to feature the usual RSS feeds from the Teaching and Lifelong Learning landing page and also to Tweet new articles as they are published. However, we would like to go a step further than this by encouraging authors and readers to use social media based on the recommendations of the RIN report, ‘If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0’

Ultimately this is more than we can achieve during the life of this project, as it will involve buy in from funders, universities, computing and library services and the researchers themselves. However, as a university we are committed to this. Huddersfield and then Imperial College were the first universities to run courses promoting social media to researchers:

Stone, Graham and Collins, Ellen (2011) 25 Research Things @ Huddersfield: engaging researchers with social media. ALISS Quarterly.

Collins, Ellen, Pattern, David and Stone, Graham (2010) 25 Research Things.

Imperial College, Blogs, Twitter, wikis and other web-based tools: Collaborating and building your online presence (2011)

In addition Publishing Perspectives have put together a round up, ‘What Role Does Social Networking Have in Scholarly Publishing?’ based on discussion at the Association of Learned and Professional Scholarly Publishers (ALPSP) conference.

We are also looking into the SNEEP suite of social networking extensions as part of the journal pages on the Repository – for this we have to thank our fellow JISC project SAS Open Journals for the inspiration for this. This will allow readers of the journal to comment, tag and make notes once they log in. However, this will be dependent on how comfortable readers feel with social media and this leads us back to the way this is encouraged by their host institutions.

We do have more ambitious ideas which we will keep working on after the project completes. One of the project team, Dr. Ian Pitchford, is very keen on the concept of open peer commentary from a group of appointed expert individuals. One such model can be seen at Behavioural and Brain Sciences, which has thousands of appointed open peer commentators. It’s become so prestigious to be a Behavioural and Brain Sciences affiliate that it is the sort of thing academics put on their CVs!

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Customising the Repository

The main aim of the HOAP project is to use Eprints software to develop a low cost platform for our University journals. In our original project plan we scheduled this for completion by the end of month 4 of the project (August). However, we underestimated the complexity of this and also the fact that August is not the best time to meet!

The delay has also worked in our advantage as the University is currently rebranding its web presence and the HOAP pages will now reflect this. In addition, research at the University is now to be defined into the six themes below. The delay in getting the Eprints pages launched will now allow us to brand each journal we launch under one of the themes.

We have some very rough mock-ups of what the Teaching in Lifelong Learning journal may look like below. Basically we intend to have a landing page in the Repository and then a contents page for each issue which will link directly to the abstract/references and the full text in PDF.

After discussions with Eprints we have decided to create a ‘new’ Repository, which will sit alongside the existing Repository. This involves a little extra work at the planning stage; hence the delay, but the benefits far outweigh this. The main reasons for doing this are to be able to maintain navigation throughout – if we didn’t do this readers may not be able to get back to the journal front page from the abstract and PDF. In addition, we want to keep the browse list of journal article authors separate from Repository authors.

We are also working on a revised Eprints article workflow in order to streamline the workflow as much as we can. We hope to include an improved references display that will allow users to see all references, including DOI links, in the abstract view.

As CrossRef publishers we are committed to add DOIs to all article references (about 400 in total). We estimate that this will take us well beyond the end of the HOAP project, however, as part of the sustainability planning we have committed to do this. We will then build this into the workflow for issue publication and costs, which we will blog about in the coming weeks.