Open Access in the United Kingdom

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Summary:

"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has been a leader in the advance towards open access (OA) to scholarship and research.1 Indeed, a combination of centralized, state research-funding bodies, coupled with a nationwide openness and transparency agenda has created an economic and political climate in which discourses of open science and scholarship can flourish. Although different parts of UK policy on open access have not been universally well received by those in the academy and those in publishing, there have also been two official parliamentary hearings into open access; a set of reviews and recommendations, headed by Professor Adam Tickell; and a variety of implementation strategies from different private and public funders and institutions. In this chapter, I briefly cover the political and economic elements of open access as they have emerged in the UK, spanning: funders, politics, institutions, publishers, and academics. Please note that this chapter will be available openly one year after publication."

Link:

http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/16684/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.uk oa.transparency oa.growth oa.policies oa.publishing oa.funders.public oa.funders.private oa.funders

Date tagged:

12/17/2017, 13:41

Date published:

12/17/2017, 09:46