Tony Hey: "A Journey to Open Access" Part 6 The Open Access Revolution: The Next Steps...
Another excerpt : ...This entry concludes this series of articles on my personal journey to Open Access. However, I must thank my colleagues at the University of Southampton in the UK who educated me and collaborated to achieve great things at the University—Wendy Hall, Les Carr, Chris Gutteridge, Steve Hitchcock, Tim Brody and Jessie Hey in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Mark Brown, Pauline Simpson and Wendy White in the University Library, and Alma Swan from Key Perspectives. But most of all I should thank the world’s most persistent evangelist for green open access, Stevan Harnad.... Hélène Bosc Open Access to Scientific Communication http://open-access.infodocs.eu/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Stevan Harnad To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Cc: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum ; Lib Serials list Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 8:21 PM Subject: [GOAL] Tony Hey's Optimistic Prediction for Open Access Tony Hey: "A Journey to Open Access" Part 6 The Open Access Revolution: The Next Steps... Excerpt: ...We now have OA mandates coming from both the Legislative and the Executive branches of the US Government. The White House memorandum covers both research publications and research data and requires the relevant Federal Agencies to deliver a plan within six months from February 2013. It is noteworthy that both the White House memorandum and the bi-partisan FASTR bill require green open access via repositories and say nothing about gold—in contrast to the approach preferred by the Finch Report and by the Research Councils in the UK. For more commentary on both FASTR and the White House memorandum see Peter Suber’s blog... ... Back in the UK, some re-thinking of Finch and RCUK’s OA policy is taking place. A recent review by the House of Lords criticized RCUK for failures in communication and for lack of clarity about its policy and guidance. Prior to a more complete review of its policy in 2014, RCUK issued a revision of its Open Access policy on 6 March 2013. The major change was that there is now an explicit statement that although RCUK prefers gold, either green or gold is acceptable. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has also launched an inquiry into open access which has yet to report. Finally, on 25 February, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) is consulting the research community on ‘the role of open-access publishing in the submission of outputs to the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF)’. For non-UK readers, the REF is a research review process conducted by HEFCE, the major UK university funding organization, to determine national university and departmental research rankings. Their intent is ‘to require that outputs meeting the REF open access requirement (whether published by the gold or green route) shall be accessible through a repository of the submitting institution’.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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