Compliance with funder OA mandates: use of an Intervention Mapping approach to achieve behaviour change

As funders have made clear their expectation that the outputs they support should be openly available to all, institutions have adopted a range of approaches to ensure compliance. The Open to Open Access (O2OA) project, one of nine collaborative projects in the Jisc’s Open Access Good Practice Pathfinder programme, aimed to develop processes, technical solutions and guidance to support researchers in complying with institutional and funder open access mandates. This poster will describe one element of the O2OA project: the use of an intervention logic based approach to encourage increased compliance with funders’ OA mandates. It will feature the development of a new behaviour change-based Intervention Mapping tool (Bayley (2015) from Bartholomew et al. (2011)) and its implementation at one of project partner institutions: the University of Northampton, UK. Outcomes and lessons learned from the implementation will be highlighted and recommendations made for other institutions considering using this approach