Finch II defends Finch I (but HEFCE/REF to the Rescue, as recommended by BIS)
Amsciforum 2013-11-20
Summary:
The Finch review now endorses the importance of author choice, which is also reflected in the funding councils’ draft open-access mandate for the research excellence framework. The HEFCE draft open-access mandate thereby effectively fixes the Finch/RCUK mandate by requiring immediate institutional deposit, whether the author chooses gold or green, and whether or not access to the immediate-deposit is made immediately open access or CC-BY. This not only ensures that the RCUK open access mandate will be successful, but it immunizes it against the following "Publishers' Fantasy Scenario"...