Crossref initiatives will support reporting to funders - Research Information

" ... And the implementation of HEFCE’s new OA policy has given further momentum to the OA movement in the UK, because it requires that final, peer-reviewed journal articles must be deposited in an institutional or subject repository and made available to read and download free of charge if they are to be eligible for the next Research Excellence Framework (REF). Stakeholders are committed to making OA work and the latest moves from publisher-led initiative Crossref have real potential to help institutions with one of their most pressing OA challenges – effective monitoring and reporting to funders about the publication of research. Crossref’s system is well established and has been adopted by many publishers globally to make research outputs easier to identify and track ...'