On 2013-02-25, at 7:51 AM, CHARLES OPPENHEIM <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with Stevan. If this really takes effect, it is good news indeed. A > pity it wasn't implemented for the 2014 REF…. The agreement is not altogether a surprise, since Charles himself jointly proposed this in Ariadne with Les Carr, Tim Brody and myself way back in 2003! Mandated online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Improving the UK Research Assessment Exercise whilst making it cheaper and easier Stevan > > Charles > > Professor Charles Oppenheim > From: Stevan Harnad <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013, 12:49 > Subject: Re: UK HEFCE Call for Comments: Open access and submissions to the > REF post-2014 > > Seb Schmoller has sent a better URL for the HEFCE REF Call for comments. > > Stevan, > http://www.hefce.ac.uk/media/hefce/content/news/news/2013/open_access_letter.pdf > might be easier for some people. > Seb Schmoller > > I have read it all, very quickly, and it does look very promising, if I have > understood it correctly: > > The proposal (for the only category in which I have some expertise) is: > > To mandate that in order to be eligible for post-2014 REF > all peer-reviewed journal articles submitted > must be deposited in the author's institutional repository > immediately upon acceptance for publication, > regardless of whether the article is published in a subscription journal or > in a Gold OA journal > (no preference, and no restriction on author's journal choice), > and regardless of whether the publisher embargoes Open Access to the deposit > (for an allowable embargo period that remains to be decided.) > > If I have understood this correctly, then there is only one ambiguity I think > I see, which I think needs to be resolved very clearly: > > There may be inter-discipline differences regarding the allowable OA embargo > length, but there should be no inter-discipline differences at all regarding > the immediate-deposit requirement itself. > > (Closed Access deposit has nothing to do with publisher policy, copyright, > embargoes, or discipline differences). > > The proposed HEFCE REF OA policy looks much better than the current RCUK OA > policy. Let us hope that the RCUK policy will now be brought into line with > the proposed HEFCE REF policy. > > It is also very reassuring to hear that the policy will be based on > collaboration and consultation. > > This may help the UK regain its former worldwide leadership position in OA. > The new US policy developments (following, a decade later, in the UK's > pioneering footsteps) are extremely welcome and timely, but they still have > many rough edges. Let's hope it will be the UK that again shows how to smooth > them out and propel us all unstoppably to global OA. > > Stevan Harnad > >
_______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
