United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
This will be my final Captain’s log in charge of the USS UKCoRR (or should that be HMS UKCoRR?), and I thought I’d mark the occassion with a few remarks. So if the assembled crew would forgive my indulgance for a few moments, I’d like to reflect a little on what’s going through my mind…
As most UKCoRR members know both myself and Jackie Wickham will be standing down from the Committee as of the end of the month. This means there will be a new Chair and Secretary as of 1st August onwards through to the end of the year when the whole Committee structure will be changing a…
In the wake of the Finch Report on the 16th July 2012 the RCUK has finally unveiled their revised Open Access policy, which brings with it a harmonization across the councils as well as introducing significant changes. The policy will apply to all qualifying publications funded entirely or in part by a RCUK source from…
The issue of open access within academia has never been higher during the recent academic spring coupled with the publication of the PEER project results. As a consequence, like most people working in the academic scholarly communications arena, UKCoRR has been awaiting the publication of the Finch Report with heightened anticipation. Given the assemblage of stakeholders…