Making full and immediate open access a reality: the role of the institutional OA policy | UKSCL

"Policy should incentivise. In the case of the UKSCL model institutional open access policy there are:

• Incentives for the academic: the retention of academic freedom to publish in the venue of choice knowing that rights have legally been retained in order to meet funder open access aims
• Incentives for the library and finance directors: reassurance that funder mandates are not accompanied by significant new financial burdens for the institution
• And finally, incentives for publishers: to work with us so that an affordable transition can be achieved, and so that it is the Version of Record which is freely and publicly available on publication.

Finally, If I were to have one wish, it would be this: that, having done all this work to establish this legal approach to solving first, the OA policy stack, and now, the challenges for implementing cOAlition S aims, that the policy was not, in the end, needed, and that we were instead able to find an affordable and workable route to full and immediate open access...."