[GOAL] Tony Hey's Optimistic Prediction for Open Access

[Stevan Harnad]

Tony Hey: "A Journey to Open Access" Part 6
The Open Access Revolution: The Next
Steps...<http://tonyhey.net/2013/04/04/a-journey-to-open-access-part-6/>

Excerpt:

...We now have OA mandates coming from both the Legislative and the
Executive branches of the US Government. The White House memorandum covers
both research publications and research data and requires the relevant
Federal Agencies to deliver a plan within six months from February 2013. It
is noteworthy that both the White House memorandum and the bi-partisan
FASTR bill require green open access via repositories and say nothing about
gold—in contrast to the approach preferred by the Finch Report and by the
Research Councils in the UK. For more commentary on both FASTR and the
White House memorandum see Peter Suber’s
blog<https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/8hzviMJeVHJ>
...

... Back in the UK, some re-thinking of Finch and RCUK’s OA policy is
taking place. A recent review by the House of Lords criticized RCUK for
failures in communication and for lack of clarity about its policy and
guidance. Prior to a more complete review of its policy in 2014, RCUK
issued a revision of its Open Access policy on 6 March 2013. The major
change was that there is now an explicit statement that although RCUK
prefers gold, either green or gold is acceptable. The Department for
Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has also launched an inquiry into
open access which has yet to report. Finally, on 25 February, the Higher
Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) is consulting the research
community on *‘the role of open-access publishing in the submission of
outputs **to the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF)’*. For
non-UK readers, the REF is a research review process conducted by HEFCE,
the major UK university funding organization, to determine national
university and departmental research rankings. Their intent is *‘to require
that outputs meeting the REF open access requirement (whether published by
the gold or green route) shall be accessible through a repository of the
submitting institution’*....
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