Abstract
Beginning in April 2016, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) will require that all journal articles and conference papers are deposited in a subject or institutional repository immediately at the point of acceptance for publication and made Open Access as the earliest possible opportunity, subject to publisher embargoes. This requirement is a prerequisite to journal articles and conference proceedings being weligible for submission to the next Research Assessment Exercise (REF). This new association between Open Access and research assessment is rapidly leading to a large-scale transition to Open Access in UK-based universities. This transition will bring many benefits, but the scale of UK universities’ Open Access operations brings a number of challenges to the implementation of this requirement. This poster will examine some of these challenges and explain how a number of universities are dealing with them.
Highlights
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the United Kingdom have been committed to Open Access (OA) and all research-led and most teaching-led institutions provide some Open Access services to their researchers
In the last two years, we have seen major research funders such as RCUK begin to require that the research they fund is made Open Access
HEFCE have recently announced new requirements meaning that many journal articles and conference proceedings may not be eligible for submission to the REF if they are not made Open Access from the point of acceptance by publishers
Summary
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the United Kingdom have been committed to Open Access (OA) and all research-led and most teaching-led institutions provide some Open Access services to their researchers (such as institutional repositories). HEFCE have recently announced new requirements meaning that many journal articles and conference proceedings may not be eligible for submission to the REF if they are not made Open Access from the point of acceptance by publishers These changes in particular mean that many UK HEIs will need to introduce new services to support Open Access and to consolidate and raise the profile of existing services. The LOCH project will fulfil a need to provide guidance and evidence of best practice in the provision and management of Open Access services It will share experiences of three HEIs which have extensive experience of running repositories, CRIS systems, OA journal hosting and publication funds. Compliance with research funder and research assessment requirements will be made easier and this will reduce the risks of non-compliance for institutions
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