HEE’s aims:
- champion and facilitate open access publishing
- explore and advise on repositories of curated/digitised content
Open Access Community of Practice
This comprises 30 health librarians from across England from: NHS; Kings Fund; Public Health England. It first met May 2019 in London. This inaugural meeting included these speakers:
- Kathryrn Funk from NLM
- Frank Norman from the Crick Institute
- Sara Gould from the British Library
The Community of Practice meets virtually and has a dedicated SharePoint and associated e-mail list. This gives members:
- a space to share and work collaboratively on documents
- a central place to pool together our learning and discussions
Members of the group have expressed a range of reasons for being part of this community of practice
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- “keen to learn from colleagues on this group”
- knowing “how others have experienced managing organisational repositories to help inform the development of our digital archive”
- “a keen interest in grey literature – how to capture and promote unpublished works” and being motivated by addressing how we “could make NHS research more accessible/visible, thus enhancing impact”
The following three sub-groups have been set up to work on current group priorities:
- Repositories
- Educational Resources for Open Access (To be Published)
- User experience. To identify the motivations for NHS staff to engage with Open Access (To be Published)
For more information or to become involved, contact: Helene Gorring