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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>At the 2001 meeting that launched the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) the newly-fledged OA movement outlined two strategies for making the scholarly literature freely available. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Later dubbed green OA and gold OA, these are now the two primary means of providing open access, and both types have been mandated by research funders in the UK. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For instance, in 2013 Research Councils UK (RCUK) introduced an OA policy that favours gold open access, and in 2014 the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) announced <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>what is essentially a green OA policy, which will come into force next year. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So how does the future for open access look?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Some commentary is available here: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/hefce-elsevier-copy-request-button-and.html">http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/hefce-elsevier-copy-request-button-and.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>