[Irtalk] Fwd: [SCHOLCOMM] Open Access and the Research Excellence Framework: Strange bedfellows yoked together by HEFCE

[Hilton Gibson]

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From: Richard Poynder <richard.poynder at btinternet.com>
Date: 19 February 2015 at 12:32
Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] Open Access and the Research Excellence Framework:
Strange bedfellows yoked together by HEFCE
To: scholcomm at lists.ala.org


When the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) announced its
open access policy last March the news was greeted with great enthusiasm by
OA
advocates, who view it as a “game changer” that will ensure all UK research
becomes freely available on the Internet. They were especially happy that
HEFCE
has opted for a green OA policy, believing that this will provide an
essential
green component to the UK’s “otherwise one-sided gold OA policy”.

The HEFCE policy will come into effect on 1st April 2016, but how successful
can we expect it to be, and what are the implications of linking open
access to
the much criticised Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the way HEFCE has
done? These are, after all, strange bedfellows. Might there be better ways
of
ensuring that research is made open access?

I have posted something on open access and the REF here:

http://poynder.blogspot.fr/2015/02/open-access-and-research-excellence.html
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