Parliamentary committee criticizes current policy on open access in the UK | Open Science

"The Finch Report and the policy on open access in the UK are under the fire of criticism. The present solutions that promote and favor Gold OA were met with numerous voices of dissatisfaction from within the scientific community. The House of Commons’ Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee, in its report, has recently added its own two cents into the discussion. The committee took a closer look at many aspects of the current OA policy in the UK, including the choice of OA model, publishing embargo or licenses. But the most important issue raised in the report is related to the problem of the cost of open access and favoring the Gold model at the expense of the Green model. The issue of the costs of APCs seems, in fact, to be one of the main topics of the report. The committee points out that the costs associated with the implementation of policies focused on Gold OA have been underestimated. But more important is the fact that Green OA is simply cheaper and this has not been taken into account ..."