REF Open Access & Gold OA | RESEARCH NEWS from Swansea University Library

"The REF open access policy (which comes into effect on 1st April 2016) was not designed to compel authors to pay for gold open access. In the original policy they state: 'Institutions can achieve full compliance without incurring any additional publication costs through article processing charges'. Instead the focus of HEFCE’s policy is encouraging researchers to take the free 'green' route of uploading their papers to institutional repositories ..."