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Critique of RCUK's Response to BIS Recommendations on UK Open Access Policy

Critique of RCUK's Response to BIS Recommendations on UK Open Access Policy
Critique of RCUK's Response to BIS Recommendations on UK Open Access Policy
RCUK has agreed that in order to comply with the RCUK Open Access (OA) Mandate, fundees are free to choose either to publish in any journal at all, and self-archive the final refereed draft (Green OA), or to publish in an OA journal (Gold OA), although RCUK prefers Gold. With the help of the HEFCE addendum that all articles must be deposited in the author's institutional repository immediately upon acceptance for publication in order to be eligible for REF2020, irrespective of whether the author chooses Green or Gold, or whether OA is immediate or embargoed, RCUK follows the spirit if not the letter of the BIS recommendations. The HEFCE requirement recruits institutions to monitor and ensure timely compliance with the both the RCUK and the HEFCE mandate, and the institutional repository provides the automated request-a-copy Button to tide over research user needs during any embargo.
open access, RCUK, HEFCE, BIS, REF
Harnad, Stevan
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Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b

Harnad, Stevan (2013) Critique of RCUK's Response to BIS Recommendations on UK Open Access Policy. Open Access Archivangelism, Winter Issue.

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Abstract

RCUK has agreed that in order to comply with the RCUK Open Access (OA) Mandate, fundees are free to choose either to publish in any journal at all, and self-archive the final refereed draft (Green OA), or to publish in an OA journal (Gold OA), although RCUK prefers Gold. With the help of the HEFCE addendum that all articles must be deposited in the author's institutional repository immediately upon acceptance for publication in order to be eligible for REF2020, irrespective of whether the author chooses Green or Gold, or whether OA is immediate or embargoed, RCUK follows the spirit if not the letter of the BIS recommendations. The HEFCE requirement recruits institutions to monitor and ensure timely compliance with the both the RCUK and the HEFCE mandate, and the institutional repository provides the automated request-a-copy Button to tide over research user needs during any embargo.

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Published date: 25 November 2013
Keywords: open access, RCUK, HEFCE, BIS, REF
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 360188
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/360188
PURE UUID: 6245a69f-7114-4fea-b50e-27378b6283c8
ORCID for Stevan Harnad: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6153-1129

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Date deposited: 28 Nov 2013 01:31
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:48

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Author: Stevan Harnad ORCID iD

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