Abstract
This article explains the policy position taken by University College London (UCL) in establishing the UCL Press. It sets the creation of the Press against the background of national open access (OA) policy development in the UK. UCL Press, repatriated from a commercial provider, was relaunched as an OA press as part of UCL Library Services on 1 August 2013. The Press will publish both OA electronic journals and OA monographs, with a particular emphasis in the latter on the arts, humanities and social sciences. UCL is largely funding Press activity from its own internal funds, seeing OA as an opportunity rather than a threat.
Highlights
Speaking in 2012, the UK Minister of State for Universities and Science underlined the challenges for scholarship in moving forward to an open access (OA) future
It is necessary for University College London (UCL) to pursue a policy towards open access which supports its world standing as a centre of research excellence, but which creates a move towards OA dissemination
Given the increasing number of funder mandates requiring OA dissemination, the Vice-Provost (Research)’s Office, supported by the UCL SMT (Senior Management Team), agreed that UCL should take a principled stand on the payment of OA publication charges, thereby offering leadership to the HE sector
Summary
Director of UCL Library Services UCL Copyright Officer Chief Executive of UCL Press. University College London (UCL) is a research-intensive university, a member of the Russell. Group of universities in the UK, and an institution which came fourth in the 2013 QS World University rankings.[4] It is necessary for UCL to pursue a policy towards open access which supports its world standing as a centre of research excellence, but which creates a move towards OA dissemination. All this research funding is administered by UCL Library Services and has necessitated the creation of significant infrastructure (staff posts, workflows, liaison routes with academic departments, budget management and reporting, copyright and compliance monitoring) to ensure that the monies are well managed and well spent.
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