<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>As clearly stated in the <a href="http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/documents/Openaccessreport.pdf">Review of the Implementation of the RCUK Policy on Open access</a>, <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the HEFCE/REF exception is not to the deposit requirement but to the OA requirement, and that makes all the difference in the world:</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;font-weight:700">HEFCE Post-2014 REF Guidelines for
Open Access
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:GillSans">The following exceptions deal with cases where
deposit of the output is possible, but there are issues
to do with meeting the access requirements. In the
following cases, the output will still be required to meet
the deposit and discovery requirements, but not the
access requirements. A closed-access deposit will be
required, and the open access requirements should be
met as soon as possible.
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<li style="font-size:10pt;font-family:GillSans">
<p><span style="font-size:10pt">The output depends on the reproduction of
third party content for which open access rights
</span><span style="font-size:10pt">could not be granted (either within the specified
</span><span style="font-size:10pt">timescales, or at all)
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<li style="font-size:10pt;font-family:GillSans">
<p><span style="font-size:10pt">The publication concerned requires an embargo
period that exceeds the stated maxima, and was
the most appropriate publication for the output.
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<li style="font-size:10pt;font-family:GillSans">
<p><span style="font-size:10pt">The publication concerned actively disallows open-
access deposit in a repository, and was the most
appropriate publication for the output.”
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</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:GillSans"><a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201407/#d.en.8677">www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201407/#d.en.8677</a> </span></p>
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</div></div><div><div class="" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px"><br>No publisher can block deposit; all they can do is embargo the date on which access to the deposit is set as Open Access (OA).<br><br>All REF submissions must be deposited immediately upon acceptance for publication -- embargo or no embargo. The length of the allowable OA embargo, and exemptions from it, are an entirely separate matter.<br><br>Immediate-deposit allows a uniform mandate to be adopted by all institutions and funders, regardless of publisher OA embargo policy. <br><br>Once deposited, even if embargoed, access to an individual copy for research purposes can nevertheless be requested and provided on a one-to-one basis by one click each from the requestor to request and one click from the author to comply, thanks to the institutional repositories' copy-request Button.<br><br>But only if the papers are deposited.<br><br>Sale, Arthur, Couture, Marc, Rodrigues, Eloy, Carr, Les and Harnad, Stevan (2014) <a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268511/" style="color:rgb(0,51,102)">Open Access Mandates and the "Fair Dealing" Button</a>. In: Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online (Rosemary J. Coombe & Darren Wershler, Eds.). University of Toronto Press.<br></div></div><div><br></div></div>