Jisc’s evidence to the review of the RCUK OA policy | Jisc Scholarly Communications

"I suspect that there has been a large number of written submissions of evidence to the independent panel reviewing the implementation of the RCUK OA policy; Jisc is on the panel, and has submitted evidence, of which here’s a summary. The full document, slightly longer than the 3000 word maximum requested by RCUK I’m afraid, is here -> Jisc evidence to RC OA policy review 20140910. As an overall comment, Jisc agrees that OA is a journey, not an event, and this is strongly borne out in our evidence. The RCUK policy is only one of the significant parts of this journey; the REF OA policy is also driving change in the sector and, from an institutional perspective, all these policies need to be dealt with by the same people at the same time – and at the same time that research data policies are also coming into force. The main points we make in our evidence were that ..."