ARC poised to join open-access movement
pontika.nancy@gmail.com's bookmarks 2012-09-28
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From the text: The Australian Research Council is preparing to change its funding rules to mandate open-access publishing for the research it funds.In a statement to Research Australia & NZ, a spokeswoman for the organisation said the council is planning to follow the example set by the National Health and Medical Research Council, which announced earlier this year that all the researchers it funds must add their outputs to an open-access repository within 12 months of publication. “The ARC is liaising with a range of stakeholders and considering factors such as the need to align changes with policies across Australia’s major higher education funding agencies,” added the spokeswoman. “Feedback so far from our higher education sector has been positive and the ARC will make a determination on this issue [of open access] quickly to ensure clarity for the sector.”
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However, the NHMRC has stayed with the ‘green’ open-access model by promoting repositories, rather than seeking to push for the ‘gold’ model preferred in the UK. Through this model, funders provide money to researchers to pay article processing charges up front so that commercial publishers can make their work available for free in traditional journals without an embargo period.