Open access policy propels UK ahead of global trends
abernard102@gmail.com 2015-10-14
Summary:
" ... A year after the original Finch Report, a second report recommended that a process should be set up to gather indicators of how things were progressing in the transition to open access. It also recommended the establishment of a body to keep the conversation going between the different stakeholders in open access in the UK. In response to this, Universities UK established an independent body in 2014: the Open Access Coordination Group. The group commissioned a team including Elsevier, the University of Sheffield, Research Consulting and us at Research Information Network to assess the transition to open access in the UK. We were asked to monitor the implementation of the Finch Report recommendations and collect and analyze evidence to show the state of play of open access in the UK. The resulting report – Monitoring the Transition to Open Access – shows the strength of the UK’s open access publishing activity ..."
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