HOUSE OF COMMONS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE INQUIRY: IMPROVING THE COMMERCIALISATION OF RESEARCH A RESPONSE FROM THE PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION

On December 15, 2011 the Science and Technology Committee (Commons), UK Parliament requested written submissions on “the difficulty of translating research into commercial application, particularly the lack of funding—the so-called ‘valley of death’. The Committee has therefore agreed to conduct an inquiry into how the Government and other organisations can improve the commercialisation of research.” The Publishers Association, UK submitted the response posted here, detailing their perspective on a range of issues including the value of the publisher to scholarly communication, open access, data mining, and more.