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(1/26!) Here at @UoMLibrary we’re serious about supporting #OpenAccess to research. Since we launched our Open Access Gateway back in 2016, we’ve processed 7,500 papers and ensured that they are, or will be, openly available to everyone.
(2/26) Making work #OpenAccess is really important. It means that more people can potentially read, use and cite research. However, publishing open access or sharing a copy of your paper in a repository is just the start in terms of removing barriers to access.
(3/26) A change we made to the Open Access Gateway back in December enabled depositors to flag papers that they thought might have the potential to generate media attention.
(4/26) So far we’ve referred 96 papers to @UoMNews colleagues to provide help with putting together a press release. Here’s a nice example: eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2… 
(5/26) We want to help researchers reach even wider audiences. The Open Access+ service builds on all the work we do to support Open Access here at Manchester. We help researchers make their work openly available and then ask “now what?”.
(6/26) Researchers can opt in to Open Access+ when they deposit their papers via the Open Access Gateway. Checking the box that says “I would like to receive customised guidance…” will set the wheels in motion.
(7/26) The first thing the researcher receives is a Communities of Attention report. We use @Altmetric data to generate a customised list of Twitter accounts that researchers might be interested in following and who might be interested in the paper that’s been deposited.
@altmetric (8/26) Here’s a report that we created earlier. We send one of these to each person that opts in to the service (we’ve had 64 requests since March 11th) along with some signposts to useful tools and services that might help them to reach their audiences.
(9/26) Tools include @GrowKudos, @TheConversation and @Altmetric, as well as all other services across the University that can help them too. @UoMPolicy connects researchers with policy makers and influencers. @UoMEngage can help researchers to involve the public in their work.
@GrowKudos @TheConversation @altmetric @UoMPolicy @UoMEngage (10/26) Then we wait for the article to be published. We built a tool called the OACP (Open Access Compliance Platform) that queries CrossRef every night and gives us a nudge when it thinks an article has been published.
(11/26) If a paper is openly available immediately on publication (because it’s Gold OA or there’s no embargo) we’ll put together a nice Twitter thread on our @UoMOpenAccess account that brings together everything you’d want to know about a paper.
(12/26) We tag the authors, their Schools and any research groups they might be involved in. We use hashtags to improve discoverability and we post a link to the article. We’ll also acknowledge any funders, link to accompanying research data and signpost related research projects
(13/26) We’ve also been using @Scholarcy to help us interpret the research and include some non-technical summaries to help a wider audience understand what the paper is about.
(14/26) Where there’s already been some discussion about the paper, we’ll use @Altmetric to identify what people have been saying and link to any online attention that might help audiences understand the research, like news articles, Twitter conversations and blog posts.
(15/26) If a paper’s just been published there might not be much to link to, but we’ll add it to a list and keep an eye on it. If anything pops up we’ll go back and update the thread.
(16/26) We’ll then use the Communities of Attention report and tag a few of the accounts that we identified in the thread, just to let them know that we think they might be interested in the paper.
(17/26) If the paper’s not open access we’ll still put together the neat Twitter thread but we let people know that it’s behind a paywall and that they’ll have to wait 6/12/18/24 months to access the paper if they don’t have a subscription.
(18/26) Are you still with us? Once we’ve done all this we’ll email the depositing researcher and let them and their colleagues know that we’ve tweeted about their work. At this point we’ll also encourage them to create a non-technical summary in @GrowKudos.
(19/26) Authors just need to create an account, claim their publication and post their summary. Writing a non-technical summary of a complex research paper can be quite difficult, though, so we give them a helping hand by running their abstract through a de-jargonizer.
(20/26) We use this tool (scienceandpublic.com) that was developed by @ayeletlab. It highlights words that non-expert audiences might struggle to understand. We attach the annotated abstract (which looks like this) to the email.
@ayeletlab (21/26) We’re using @UoMOpenAccess to amplify research even where the author hasn’t opted in to the Open Access+ service. Every day we tweet about papers as they become available after embargoes end.
(22/26) We’ve used @SciVal to identify clusters of #OpenAccess papers and then curated themed Twitter threads highlighting some of the research areas that the University is really good at.
(23/26) And we’ve been keeping an eye on conversations around the University’s research and butting into conversations to let people know that we have #OpenAccess versions of the papers they’re interested in.
(24/26) There’s been some really good feedback so far.
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(25/26) That’s the end of the thread. Thanks for reading! We’ll turn this into a blog post soon.
(26/26) One more thing! @Altmetric data suggests that this thread will be of interest to @ferli90 @s_towery @Repositorian @McDawg @stevehit @gilmani @for_Content @usernameerror @dededawson
