Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
This paper argues that the best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open access institutional repositories
The accusation has been made that the Committee pre-judged the issues and that the inquiry was ‘a solution searching for a problem’
The Government does say that it is content to allow the work currently being undertaken by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Research Councils UK (RCUK) to continue
Summary
This paper argues that the best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open access institutional repositories This is exactly what the Select Committee report recommended. The importance attached to institutional repositories by the Committee, far from being predetermined, emerged during the course of the inquiry in response to the evidence. It was not there at the beginning. The original remit of the inquiry published in December 2003 did not mention institutional repositories at all Another issue, scientific fraud and malpractice, which did feature in the remit, is dealt with only briefly in the report itself. It repeats several times that the Government wishes to create ‘a level playing field’ for all of the players in the
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