UKSG eNews

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-10-13

Summary:

"Many publishers in the UK and abroad have agreed to provide free electronic access to their journals and conference proceedings to the expert panels undertaking the assessment for the Research Excellence Framework 2014 (REF), the new system for assessing the quality of research in UK universities and colleges. The Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) has secured the permission and means of technical access from each of the hundreds of publishers concerned, acting as the enabling link between publishers and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) who manage the REF on behalf of the UK’s four higher education funding bodies. PLS has now obtained the majority of permissions and HEFCE launched the pilot REF submission system on 14 September. As research outputs are submitted to the REF during the course of 2013 it is expected that even more publications will prove to be relevant to the REF so PLS will be continuing its work with publishers as appropriate throughout the year. PLS’ licensing agent, The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), has agreed a royalty-free licence with HEFCE to enable copying for the purposes of the REF on behalf of publishers, authors and visual artists represented by PLS, the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) respectively."

Link:

http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/UKSG/281/Research-Excellence-Framework-2014/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.licensing oa.copyright oa.uk oa.funders oa.cla oa.hefce oa.ref oa.pls oa.alcs oa.dacs oa.libre oa.announcements

Date tagged:

10/13/2012, 08:16

Date published:

10/13/2012, 04:16