Open-Access Publishing: The Way Forward? - Careers Advice - jobs.ac.uk

" ... Research funders have now followed institutions and academics in supporting OA publishing. It is now the case that all the UK research councils make OA deposit a condition of their funding (as does EU funding, and funding from a number of other sources). Furthermore, HEFCE (the Higher Education Funding Council of England and Wales) has recently announced its full support of OA research, stating that as of 1 April 2016 journal articles and conference proceedings must as a rule have been placed in an OA repository in order to be eligible for any future REF ..."