[GOAL] Blog: Could the HEFCE policy be a Trojan Horse for gold OA?

[Danny Kingsley]

<Apologies for cross positing>

Hello all,

A new Unlocking Research blog published today “ Could the HEFCE policy be a Trojan Horse for gold OA?” - https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=488 <https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=488> is arguing that changes to the HEFCE policy are moving it from a green policy towards a gold one.


A teaser:
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The HEFCE Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework <http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201407/> kicks in 9 weeks from now. The policy states that, to be eligible for submission to the post-2014 REF, authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts of journal articles and conference proceedings with an ISSN must have been deposited in an institutional or subject repository on acceptance for publication. Deposited material should be discoverable, and free to read and download, for anyone with an internet connection.
The goal of the policy is to ensure that publicly funded (by HEFCE) research is publicly available. The means HEFCE have chosen to favour is the green route – by putting the AAM into a repository. This does not involve any payment to the publishers. The timing of the policy – at acceptance – is to give us the best chance of obtaining the author’s accepted manuscript (AAM) before it is deleted, forgotten or lost by the author. <snip>

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Enjoy!

Danny


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