The Ingram Coutts Award will be presented at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony at the American Library Association Annual Conference and Exposition on Saturday, June 27, 2015 in San Francisco.

You can see some of our reasoning behind this in our article from the end of 2014:

Emery, Jill and Stone, Graham (2014) The Sound of the Crowd: Using Social Media to develop best practices for Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians (OAWAL). Collaborative Librarianship, 6 (3). pp. 104-111.

There is now a reworked introduction and section 5.1 and a brand new section 5.2. We hope it is an improvement and hope to be adding to it over the next few weeks

More changes to come very soon!

5.1         Creative Commons licences
5.2         Institutional polices and copyright
5.3         Funder mandates
5.4         Third Party rights and author rights
5.5         Commercial Use Questions
5.6         Benefits of publishing with a Creative Commons licence

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

The questionnaire is available until 14/04/2014 at: http://www.unipark.de/uc/US/JournalManagement/OA/

The anonymous survey has 23 questions and will take around 15 minutes to complete.

First results will be presented at IFLA 2014 in Lyon, France.

Let us now if you would like to add something and where and we’ll create the pages and link to them from here.

We’ll be speaking at Electronic Resources & Libraries 2014 in Austin in March. We’d love to hear your feedback and comments on OAWAL and will try to update these pages as we go.

We’ll make the conference presentation available shortly

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.

Abstract
Currently in the formative stage, the intent of OAWAL is to create an openly accessible wiki for librarians working on the management of open access workflow within their given institutions. At is point, the team has developed significant areas of focus for workflow management and will be building upon the current structure as informed through in-person and online crowdsourcing. The current sections to be developed are: advocacy, Creative Commons, the Library as Publisher, standards, workflows, and discoverability. each section will be rolled out to social media via tumblr, twitter, & Facebook seeking feedback and in addition, we’d like to obtain feedback from in-person sessions at conferences such as this one.

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