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Summary:

"The Wellcome Trust has said that sanctions could accelerate the implementation of Research Councils UK’s open-access policy. The trust says it withholds award letters from successful grant applicants until they can show research arising from their previous awards comply with its open-access policy. These sanctions have had 'a very positive effect in increasing compliance levels and ensuring our published outputs are available in open-access form,' says the trust in a statement submitted to RCUK’s review of its open-access policy. The trust also says it will withhold final grant payments from researchers as it awaits confirmation that papers are compliant, and that it will discount non-compliant, trust-funded papers from the publication record of grant applicants. RCUK’s review is chaired by former University of Leicester vice-chancellor Robert Burgess, whose group is sifting through evidence submitted before the deadline of 12 September. RCUK’s open-access policy came into effect in April 2013, when the body shared £17 million between 84 institutions to pay for academic papers published in the following year to be made open access. Meanwhile, the University of Glasgow has published data showing that within the first year of the policy, its academics published 362 papers funded by RCUK. Of these, 282 were compliant, a rate of 78 per cent. RCUK’s policy sets a target of 45 per cent for institutions receiving the grant. The Glasgow figures were released in a paper detailing the university’s compliance on 11 September, produced by the university’s research information manager Valerie McCutcheon. Wellcome advises RCUK that compliance with its policy rose from 15 per cent in the first year, 2007, to around 65-70 per cent today. Cancer Research UK's compliance rate is 35 per cent, according to that charity's submission to RCUK ..."

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http://www.researchresearch.com/index.php?articleId=1346530&option=com_news&template=rr_2col&view=article

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Tags:

oa.u.glasgow oa.consultations oa.compliance oa.mandates oa.rcuk oa.uk oa.funders oa.wellcome oa.comment oa.new ru.sparc oa.policies

Date tagged:

09/20/2014, 18:55

Date published:

09/20/2014, 10:57