The Research Information Network (RIN) has appointed us (see http://www.rin.ac.uk/sc-toolkit)
to develop a web-based toolkit to support key stakeholders in the UK
(especially research funders, higher education institutions, libraries
and publishers) to apply the common principles set out in an earlier
RIN document, the Research and the Scholarly Communications Process:
Towards Strategic Goals for Public Policy (http://www.rin.ac.uk/sc-statement
).
I'm working with Robin Beecroft of Searchlighter (http://www.searchlighter.org/
) on this project, which will run throughout 2009.
The toolkit will provide guidance to relevant stakeholders in relation
to each principle constituting the statement of principles, and their
roles in applying them. It will encourage reflection on how the
agendas of different stakeholders might be aligned behind common goals
and conflicts of interests resolved.
In other words, we're looking to build something that will of genuine
practical use to publishers, librarians, HEIs and research funders in
formulating and developing policy. The scope is wide, including
quality assurance (peer review and more); ensuring recognition and
reward; presentation and publication of research outputs; facilitating
access to research outputs; assessment, evaluation usage and impact;
and long-term preservation.
We're currently in a research and consultation phase, surveying and
interviewing people from across the scholarly communications spectrum.
If you'd be interested in participating in this consultation exercise
(and are based in the UK) and we have not already approached you,
please do get in touch with me or Robin.
The project has its own blog: http://rinsc.wordpress.com/. We plan to
use the blog to post our research findings as they develop, gather
data and documents and to solicit feedback as the project progresses
towards implementing the toolkit.
-Mark
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