A major new report calls on the UK to improve its "mistaken" OA policy

"The UK House of Commons Select Committee on Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) just issued a major report on the current national open-access (OA) policy in the UK. The new report makes all the right criticisms of the current policy, and all the right recommendations for improving it. It's carefully done, long overdue, and I hope the Research Councils UK (RCUK) will revise its policy in light of it. The report vindicates those of us who share the goal of a rapid and complete transition to OA, but deplore the approach taken by the Research Councils UK (RCUK)...."