Too soon to tell: Review of the RCUK OA policy - Research Libraries UK

"When asked in the late 1960s what the significance of the French Revolution was, Zhou Enlai is famously reputed to have replied ‘It is too soon to tell’. Any event needs time for the implications to make themselves felt, for the ramifications to become clear. Reading the recently published Independent Review of the RCUK Policy on Open Access, I was reminded of Zhou Enlai’s quote. The Review makes clear the difficulty of evaluating a policy that has been in place for only 16 months and the ‘It is too soon to tell’ mantra appears throughout. However, the Review does bring together some valuable evidence and points towards future issues that need to be addressed. Every reader will find something of interest in the Review; these are some of the points that struck me .."