The Research Information Network (RIN) is commissioning a toolkit to help stakeholders put the common principles set out in the 'Research and the Scholarly Communications Process: Towards strategic goals for public policy' into practice. In February 2007, RIN developed a set of seven principles for public policy on scholarly communications. This statement was based on discussions which RIN initiated during 2006 with a range of stakeholders, notably from the library, publishing and research funding communities.
The web-based toolkit is being developed to support key stakeholders, especially research funders, higher education institutions, libraries and publishers, to apply the principles set out in the policy. The project will run from March 2009 to November 2009.
The toolkit will provide guidance to relevant stakeholders in relation to each principle constituting the statement of principles, and their roles in applying them. It will encourage reflection on how the agendas of different stakeholders might be aligned behind common goals and conflicts of interests resolved.
