RCUK publishes first independent review of its open access policy

Sir Bob Burgess, former University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor as chair of the committee which reviewed the RCUK Policy on Open Access commented that the review had received a largely positive response to the policy with over 85 submissions of written evidence highlighting how the policy is working in practice. The review examined the impact of the policy’s implementation for higher education institutions, independent research organisations, learned societies and publishers.  You can read the full review of the RCUK Policy on open access on the RCUK website – http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/documents/Openaccessreport.pdf

Jisc has published their response to the review entitled – “Where are we on the open access roadmap? Read it here- http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/where-are-we-on-the-open-access-roadmap-26-mar-2015

Jisc has also released a document outlining how publishers might help universities and funders address some of the administrative issues around OA: http://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2015/03/26/how-publishers-might-help-universities-implement-oa/