We have been busy adding new content to OAWAL, specifically in the Advocacy and Workflows sections. This has largely been thanks to all of the feedback we have received since the launch of OAWAL back in March.
We got some great feedback in our ER&L session too, which is available here:
Emery, Jill and Stone, Graham (2014) Introducing OAWAL: crowdsourcing best practices for open access workflows in academic libraries. In: Electronic Resources & Libraries 2014, 16-19 March 2014, AT&T Conference Center Austin, Texas.
Thanks also to the tweets we received at #uksglive.
Our next job is to work through our action points in order to improve the OAWAL experience. Suggestions were made around the following areas:
- the mandates/policies section of advocacy in regards to the NIH policy in the US & deposit into PubMed
- the need to include a section on advocacy for financial models currently being utilized
- metadata needed for tracking access and funding of article processing charges within workflows
- whether this information could be supplied from other standards/workflow being developed by KBART & GoKB,
- it was noted that the CrossMark indicator is embedded on PDF versions and that this should be made clearer in the description of CrossMark
- that work was underway to address the deduplication of ORCIDs that researchers may be inadvertently creating
- that there should be a clearer mention of Portico & LOCKSS in the preservation of content
- the hopes that OAWAL could indicate the current growth rates of open access publication.
Please keep the suggestions coming 🙂
Graham & Jill