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Objective:
To secure buy-in from as many HEIs as possible to ensure the financial viability of the service by implementing a pro-active sign-up process combining one-to-one remote liaison and support with one-to-one face-to-face meetings as and when necessary.
The Advocacy team will:-
- develop an advocacy strategy including finalised participation options in line with the EThOS Business Model
- develop advocacy literature highlighting the benefits for HEIs, including greater exposure of research output; access free of charge at the point of use; and retrospective digitisation and preservation in perpetuity by the British Library
- Assisting in the review of the current EThOS toolkit and contributing FAQs and feedback into procedural enhancements for the new EThOS toolkit.
- Develop additional tools in collaboration with Work Package 4: Procedural Enhancements, to assist partners in being able to sign-up to and participate in the EThOS service
- Develop a monitoring tool to assist WP2 staff in providing the appropriate level of advice to prospective partners
- Set-up a system to support key contacts in HEIs and to empower these key staff to advocate e-theses locally
- Pro-actively support partners through the sign-up process through timely and relevant communications with key contacts and encouraging progress through twin streams for born-digital and retrospectively converted theses.
- Develop a communications plan to keep stakeholders informed of progress
- Disseminate the project's work via presentations at appropriate conferences
Jill Russell has extensive experience of liaison over library and information-related matters at the University of Birmingham and was a key member of the EThOS Advocacy and Dissemination team. For the past 10 years her duties have included managing the University’s archive of theses, and relationships with authors, supervisors, library and administrative staff, researchers and the British Library. She has developed considerable expertise in the procedural aspects of moving to e-theses and has secured a commitment from the University to adopt e-theses at Birmingham.
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