<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><Apologies for cross positing></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Hello all,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="widows: 1;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">A new Unlocking Research blog published today “ <span style="widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#141412" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3;" class="">Could the HEFCE policy be a Trojan Horse for gold OA?</span><span style="line-height: 18px;" class="">”</span><span style="line-height: 1.3;" class=""> - </span></font></span><a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=488" class="">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=488</a> is arguing that changes to the HEFCE policy are moving it from a green policy towards a gold one.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">A teaser:</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">**************************</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); line-height: 26.6667px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The </span><a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201407/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px; widows: 1; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(188, 54, 10); text-decoration: none;" class="">HEFCE Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework</a><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); line-height: 26.6667px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> kicks in 9 weeks from now. </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">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.</span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); line-height: 26.6667px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px;" class="">The</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px;" class=""> </span><strong style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px; box-sizing: border-box;" class="">goal</strong><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px;" class="">of the policy is to ensure that publicly funded (by HEFCE) research is publicly available. The</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px;" class=""> </span><strong style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px; box-sizing: border-box;" class="">means</strong><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px;" class="">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</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px;" class=""> </span><strong style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px; box-sizing: border-box;" class="">timing </strong><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px;" class="">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. </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 26.6667px;" class=""><snip></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); line-height: 26.6667px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">***************************</p><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Enjoy!</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Danny</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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