Bringing the UK’s open access research outputs together: Barriers on the Berlin road to open access
abernard102@gmail.com 2014-07-24
Summary:
"Like many countries, the UK is moving towards open access for the publications of its researchers, for a variety of reasons
and driven by factors rehearsed extensively elsewhere. It seems natural, therefore, to be able to see (and look after) this growing corpus of open UK publications in a single place, perhaps one that is within the ambit of the academic community that produces those publications. That idea was the starting point for the Open Mirror feasibility project, which ran from June 2013 to February 2014. This document summarises where we are at the end of the project, based on extensive consultation, horizon scanning, technical prototyping, legal review and a dedicated stakeholder workshop that was held in January 2014.What is an Open Mirror?As originally conceived, the Open Mirror would be an aggregation of OA content, building upon the network of
institutional repositories in the UK. It would cover all UK OA publications1, both 'green' and 'gold', and might therefore require significant changes in the interoperation between institutional repositories and other initiatives such as publisher platforms and subject-specific repositories ..."
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