Impact & Assessment

In this session, we will discuss the increasing important role of impact and assessment, and how it affects everything from funding decisions, to the kind of services we offer, to what displays and exhibits we put on. We will discuss benefits and challenges of assessment, and offer ideas for next steps to implement or refine services related to impact and assessment

Understanding Scholarly Communication: Framing the Issues

This session will discuss the four pillars and the various actors in the scholarly communication system, identify current and historical disruptions in the research cycle, and help you to begin to visualize your role(s) in the scholarly communication cycle

Outreach & Programming

In this interactive session, we will talk about enriching opportunities for outreach and programming by understanding who your audience is, looking at aligning with other programming on campus, and designing a sample “pitch” for your services and programs

On the mark? Responses to a sting

A series of responses to John Bohannon's "sting" operation on OA journals

Heard on the Net: “Academic” and “Freedom” Are Two Words for Nothing Left to Lose

Opinion piece on the use of Academic Freedom as an argument against open access publishing

Finding the principles of the commons: a report of the Force11 Scholarly Communications Working Group

Open access[No abstract available]Ye

Implementation of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) for the therapies for long COVID in non-hospitalised individuals (TLC) project

Background: Patients, their family members and caregivers have firsthand experiences of living with or supporting someone living with a disease or medical condition. This knowledge by experience cannot be replaced by the knowledge acquired by clinicians, researchers, or other professionals through study and/or work. The Therapies for Long COVID in non-hospitalised individuals (TLC) research project was funded in the UK by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and UK Research and Innovation to investigate the impact of long COVID on affected individuals. This article focuses on the implementation of PPIE for the TLC project. It provides details on the methodological approach that was adopted, the evaluation and reporting of the PPIE for the project and some previously unreported challenges we faced.Main body: A PPIE Lead was appointed to coordinate PPIE for the project and facilitate communication and relationship building with the patient partners. Our overarching approach was collaborative with patient partners actively involved in the various work packages of the project.. This was achieved by recruiting PPIE members from (1) direct contacts, (2) long COVID support groups (3) a local general practitioner (GP) surgery. Although we were unable to hold face-to-face meetings due to the social restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, we offered patients the choice of using virtual platforms like Zoom, telephone calls, and emails for communication. We adopted a 4-tiered model for the PPIE group with each tier providing different opportunities for contributing to the project. This model helped the PPIE Lead to effectively co-ordinate PPIE activities for the project as well as provide all patient partners the opportunity to contribute to the project whilst managing their condition. PPIE for the TLC project was co-evaluated with patient partners.Conclusions: Despite the challenges we encountered with the pandemic, the TLC project provided a valuable opportunity for patients to shape the design, conduct and dissemination of the research findings. The information provided in this article may be useful to other researchers and patients when planning PPIE for future health research. The implementation of PPIE in healthcare research could help ensure that the outcomes of research are those valued by and relevant to the needs of patients and other end users