[BOAI] free workshop on the costs and benefits of open access

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Amanda Hodgson.  --Peter Suber.]


You may be aware that UUK and JISC held an event on June 15th for VCs, PVCs
for research and senior managers to examine the possible sector response to
developments in open access (http://bit.ly/du84OD).

The event provided evidence to senior university managers on why open access
matters to their institution, what benefits it brings and what they can do
about it.

Open access offers the potential for both efficiency savings and economic
benefits in the longer term.  In an Open Access world, efficiency savings
for the sector could amount to over £100m p.a.  The economic benefits of
open access to UK research, and therefore the additional contribution that
universities could make to the UK economy and society, could be as much as
£170m p.a.

Given the current economic climate, such figures are commanding attention
and likely to promote action.  However, the costs and benefits may well fall
unequally across individual institutions and have implications for
institutional repository use, open access publication funds, open access
policies and many other developments in this field.

To help institutions discover how the figures work out for them, the
Research Communications Strategy project is organising free regional
follow-up workshops aimed at institutions' research support officers,
financial modellers and repository managers or administrators, who will be
asked to collect certain data to bring with them to build their own
customised models. All data used will be kept confidential to each
institutional delegate.

We are holding events in Glasgow, London, Birmingham and Leeds.

*             Glasgow, University of Glasgow - 15th July

*             London, Woburn House - 21st July

*             Birmingham, Conference Aston - 23rd July

*             Leeds, Rose Bowl, Leeds Metropolitan University - 29th July

Delegates will be guided by consultant Alma Swan through an enhanced version
of the model used in the Houghton Report and will be able to leave with
financial projections for their own institution. They will also be able to
hear from representatives of other universities how open access has been
implemented in their institutions, the financial implications of this and
how valuable they have found it to be.

Further information and booking can be found at:
http://crc.nottingham.ac.uk/events

We look forward to seeing  many of you at one of these events. If you have
any queries, please contact me at the address below.

Dr Amanda Hodgson
Open Access Adviser - Research Communications Project
Centre for Research Communications
University of Nottingham
Greenfield Medical Library
Queens Medical Centre
Nottingham
NG7 2UH
UK
+44 (0)115 84 68601
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