Consolidation predicted in academic in 2013 | The Bookseller
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"Meanwhile Ziyad Marar, global publishing director for Sage, said he expects 2013 to be further characterised by the debate which erupted in 2012 on open access funding, which led to the publication of the Finch Report and the government's controversial implementations of it. Marar said: "This will be a year of ferment around open access as UK universities address and implement the outcomes of the Finch Report and the new Research Councils UK policy, and the academic community voices its own concerns about what these changes mean for scholarly communication."
Marar added that he thought the Global Research Council meeting in May would refocus energies on the Green route to open access, "raising questions for the UK on whether it makes sense to go it alone on the Gold route". ..."