United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
Since 18th December 2014 the HE sector has been in thrall to the REF results, with those that did well clamouring about it and those that did less well cherry-picking the data. And clamouring about it. For the UKCoRR membership, however, REF 2014 is perhaps little more than a sideshow as we have long since…
Following their consultation in the summer of last year[1] HEFCE have released their policy on open access in the post-2014 REF process. This is the third open access policy from a major UK funder in as many years and there are lot of reasons to be cheerful. HEFCE’s policy as published this morning is a…
Following on from the last blog post made just under a month ago when I reported on the evidence given to the House of Lords inquiry into the Government’s implementation of their open access policy. UKCoRR submitted a further evidence document on open access to the House of Commons, Business Innovation and Skills Committee inquiry. The…
As I’m sure people are aware there are currently two government committee inquiries under way about the implementation of the Finch Report and on issues around the RCUK Policy on Open Access to research outputs. UKCoRR prepared a written submission as part of the inquiry and the full written submissions have been released (being updated…
In the months since UKCoRR first blogged about the Finch Report and the new RCUK policy, discussions have been (and still are) raging about both the report and the policy and whether it presents the best way forward for the UK as a whole. Open Access is seeing an increase in the level of media attention and institutions have begun…