Dear Colleagues,

Please find attached a very interesting interview with Caroline Edwards from 
the Open Library of Humanities which wants to extend to other disciplines:
In English: 
http://scilog.fwf.ac.at/en/article/4482/the-gold-route-to-open-science
In German: http://scilog.fwf.ac.at/artikel/4479/der-goldene-weg-zu-open-science

Best Falk

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Von: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] Im Auftrag von 
Richard Poynder
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2016 16:24
An: 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)' <goal@eprints.org>
Betreff: [GOAL] Open access and Brexit

The UK research community's response to the recent referendum - in which a 
majority of 52% voted for the UK to leave the European Union (or "Brexit") - 
has been one of horror and disbelief.

This is no surprise, not least because Brexit would have a serious impact on 
research funding in the UK. Nature reports that UK universities currently get 
around 16% of their research funding from the EU, and that the UK currently 
hosts more EU-funded holders of ERC grants than any other member state. 
Elsewhere, Digital Science has estimated that the UK could lose £1 billion in 
science funding if the UK government does not make up the shortfall in 
EU-linked research funds.

But what are the implications of Brexit for open access? Given the highly 
volatile situation the UK now finds itself in we cannot say anything for 
certain. However, any squeeze on funding will surely be detrimental to current 
plans to migrate scholarly publishing from a subscription to an open access 
system.

With these thoughts in mind I put some questions to long-time proponent of open 
access, and Professor of Structural Biology at Imperial College London, Stephen 
Curry. His thoughts on the topic can be read here:

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/open-access-and-brexit.html

Richard Poynder


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