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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Tony Hey: "A
Journey to Open Access" Part 6 </FONT>
<DIV><A
href="http://tonyhey.net/2013/04/04/a-journey-to-open-access-part-6/">The Open
Access Revolution: The Next Steps...</A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Another excerpt :</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>...This entry concludes this series of articles on my personal journey to
Open Access. However, I must thank my colleagues at the University of
Southampton in the UK who educated me and collaborated to achieve great things
at the University—Wendy Hall, Les Carr, Chris Gutteridge, Steve Hitchcock, Tim
Brody and Jessie Hey in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Mark
Brown, Pauline Simpson and Wendy White in the University Library, and Alma Swan
from Key Perspectives. But most of all I should thank the world’s most
persistent evangelist for green open access, Stevan Harnad....</DIV>
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<DIV>Hélène Bosc<BR>Open Access to Scientific Communication <BR><A
href="http://open-access.infodocs.eu/">http://open-access.infodocs.eu/</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=amsciforum@gmail.com href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com">Stevan
Harnad</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=goal@eprints.org
href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">Global Open Access List (Successor of
AmSci)</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
title=LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu
href="mailto:LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu">LibLicense-L Discussion Forum</A>
; <A title=serialst@list.uvm.edu href="mailto:serialst@list.uvm.edu">Lib
Serials list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 04, 2013 8:21
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [GOAL] Tony Hey's Optimistic
Prediction for Open Access</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Tony Hey: "A Journey to Open Access" Part 6
<DIV><A
href="http://tonyhey.net/2013/04/04/a-journey-to-open-access-part-6/">The Open
Access Revolution: The Next Steps...</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Excerpt:</DIV>
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<DIV>...<SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 24px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 16px">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 </SPAN><A
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href="https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/8hzviMJeVHJ"
target=_blank>Peter Suber’s blog</A><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 24px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 16px">... </SPAN><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 24px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); FONT-SIZE: 16px">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 </SPAN><I
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role of open-access publishing in the submission of outputs </I><I
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the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF)’</I><SPAN
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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 </SPAN><I
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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’</I><SPAN
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