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OAWAL (Open Access Workflows for Academic Libraries) - https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/oawal/ - is an attempt to create an openly accessible resource for librarians working on the management of open access workflows. We have developed 6 areas of focus for workflow management: advocacy, workflows, standards, the Library as Publisher, Creative Commons and discoverability. We are also working with SPARC and the Jisc OA Pathfinders projects and will be building upon this in-person and via online crowdsourcing and sessions at events such as this one.

The Huddersfield Open Access Publishing (HOAP) Project aimed to develop a low cost sustainable journal publishing platform using EPrints software. The development of the HOAP platform has three main outcomes as part of the project.\ud \ud It has been used to convert the University journal, Teaching in Lifelong Learning, from its existing model of a print subscription journal to an open access e-journal. A specific front end has been created for the journal, with content being archived in the University Repository. As part of this work, there has been a re-write of the notes for contributors section and a move from copyright transfer to a licence to publish model. Membership of CrossRef and the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) has been investigated and the journal is to be submitted to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in due course.\ud \ud The platform will also be used to launch a new title, Huddersfield Research Review, which will showcase the most significant research at the University of Huddersfield by including interviews with the authors of the most cited and/or most downloaded University articles in the University Repository together with an editorial overview by a senior researcher who will locate Huddersfield research within the broader national and international literature in the relevant fields and disciplines.\ud \ud An audit of the University’s journals has also been undertaken to assess the suitability of adding these to the platform in the future, this has proved extremely successful resulting in the addition of another title during the project but also the potential for starting two new Open Access titles in 2012.\ud \ud Finally, the project has developed a toolkit for other institutions to use, including details of new workflows, a licence to publish template and guidelines for new title proposals, which the project hopes can be adopted by the wider community.

The movement towards more open research has significant impact on the culture and practice of all disciplines. Researchers are increasingly expected to consider the end user’s ability to reuse data and scholarly publications by sharing these outputs through repository systems. The approach of the University of St Andrews Library (Digital Research Division) is to consider the needs of researchers holistically and provide a joined up support service for Research Data Management and Open Access. We use a Research Information System (Pure) to present a single interface to researchers for recording and depositing all research outputs. The combination of import sources, synchronized data, connected repository, web services and customized portal are employed to maximize visibility of data and publications, while presenting a seamless experience for researchers. This paper will describe how we develop workflows that can be communicated through key messages, easily remembered by researchers, and mapped to existing research lifecycles. Workflows can be tailored to disciplinary needs, for example using existing metadata from subject-repositories already used by researchers. We will describe a range of solutions that include staff in the Library and School offices providing different levels of mediation, and the benefits of an overall joined up approach. Postprint Publisher PDF

This chapter is about geospatial analysis of social media. It summarizes major issues with retrieving, sampling, geocoding, and analyzing social media data. The chapter discusses geospatial analysis from the perspectives of different domains of knowledge, including information science, geographic information science, geovisualization, information visualization and visual analytics. It shows benefits and shortcomings of these approaches and defines existing gaps in geospatial analysis.

Management information generated by workflow information systems is often used for planning, costing, decision making and other management activities. By application of the principles of Grounded Theory, this paper summarises studies of acceptance of workflow systems and finds that user resistance is manifest in many forms. The paper also finds that previous divisions of this resistance are simplistic and fail to address the issue of data integrity. The paper attempts to add to the literature on user resistance to surveillance and to categorise the ways in which users work around systems resulting in information that is not a true reflection of actual activities. Thus management decisions are based upon an illusion of actuality and not on the reality of workplace activities. This leads to the usage of the Trompe L'Oeil, a decorative technique translating literally from French as 'trick of the eye' and used for example where a window with curtains and view is painted onto a wall to look like a real window and the observer perceives a window where no window exists

This study, based on enterprise ontology, introduces necessary transactions and results for elective patient oriented flow through all levels of healthcare. This ontology model is of paramount importance as it clearly defines the ambiguous concept of the patient oriented flow. Focus is placed on knowledge management for the use of equality, efficiency and effectiveness principles on both internal and external healthcare environment. Necessary organisational levels, based on enterprise ontology, will also be presented in order to assist in the creation of a measuring framework of leading performance indicators.

Museum and other cultural heritage practice increasingly recognizes the value and importance of involving local communities in the design and delivery of the cultural services they access. Commonly, where exhibits are concerned, museums and other organisations will make use of expert panels drawn from particular demographics to evaluate exhibits in structured moderated sessions. This paper considers how the design and evaluation might be done in a more integrated participatory fashion and presents some experiences of protoyping sessions conducted on the museum floor. Our findings lead us to argue for more consideration of the value of co-design workshops on the museum of gallery floor with visitors.

In last year’s workshop discussion centred on the problems in the communication chain between publishers and librarians and what could be done to eliminate them. One year on, the presenters will share the results of their latest survey on\ud customer service – have we moved on, or are the issues still the same?\ud \ud In addition the workshop will develop the idea of Charter Mark as a way to improve quality. As more and more university libraries adopt Charter Mark, is it time for publishers and intermediaries to make performance standards publicly available? Can we agree on them and will this make the communication process even more effective?

TERMS: Techniques for Electronic Resource Management has been a crowdsourcing experiment to get librarians from Europe and the U.S. to share their best practices and workflows of electronic resource management freely to interested librarians via social media venues such as Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. You will be participating in the development of the next steps of capturing the best practices of electronic resources management

Background:\ud Systematic reviews are important for informing clinical practice and health policy. The aim of this study was to examine the bibliometrics of systematic reviews and to determine the amount of variance in citations predicted by the journal impact factor (JIF) alone and combined with several other characteristics.\ud Methods:\ud We conducted a bibliometric analysis of 1,261 systematic reviews published in 2008 and the citations to them in the Scopus database from 2008 to June 2012. Potential predictors of the citation impact of the reviews were examined using descriptive, univariate and multiple regression analysis.\ud Results:\ud The mean number of citations per review over four years was 26.5 (SD +/-29.9) or 6.6 citations per review per year. The mean JIF of the journals in which the reviews were published was 4.3 (SD +/-4.2). We found that 17% of the reviews accounted for 50% of the total citations and 1.6% of the reviews were not cited. The number of authors was correlated with the number of citations (r = 0.215, P < 0.001). Higher numbers of citations were associated with the following characteristics: first author from the United States (36.5 citations), an ICD-10 chapter heading of Neoplasms (31.8 citations), type of intervention classified as Investigation, Diagnostics or Screening (34.7 citations) and having an international collaboration (32.1 citations). The JIF alone explained more than half of the variation in citations (R2 = 0.59) in univariate analysis. Adjusting for both JIF and type of intervention increased the R2 value to 0.81. Fourteen percent of reviews published in the top quartile of JIFs (>=5.16) received citations in the bottom quartile (eight or fewer), whereas 9% of reviews published in the lowest JIF quartile (

\ud \ud TERMS: Techniques for Electronic Resource Management has been a developing crowdsourced project to provide the best practices for electronic resource management. This workshop will focus on the creation of workflows from the six functional areas of electronic resource lifecycle for varying types of resources: ebooks, ejournals/back-files/databases, and archive collections. \ud \ud Proposal Details \ud \ud The plan for the 4 hours is as follows: Groups will be formed to work through exercises that could be used as the basis for creation of workflows at an individuals' home institution. Each section of the E-Resource lifecycle will be introduced along with the activity to be performed for each section. The groups will be asked to pick a resource type to develop workflows around: ebooks, ejournals/back-files/databases, or archives.\ud \ud Section 1: Investigation & Acquisition of a Resource\ud \ud Section 2: Implementation of a Resource\ud \ud Section 3: Evaluation, Review, & Cancellation of a Resource\ud \ud The groups will need whiteboards and post-it notes to help develop the workflows for each section. Time for each group to report out will be givne to help inform all the attendees of considerations within each group.\ud \ud Statement of Uniqueness/ Originality \ud \ud This workshop builds on the ALA-Pre-Conference given in Summer 2013. This session will be more hands-on and activity focused with groups reporting back to the whole workshop on ideas developed in smaller teams. This will enable attendees to take best practice from the TERMS project and lessons learned in a practical and applicable way by the end of the workshop.