United Kingdom Council of Open Research and Repositories
Kyle Brady of the University of St Andrews here expands on his popular presentation from our recent UKCoRR members day in the below post: In July I attended the UKCoRR Members Day and delivered a presentation on the subject of approaching publishers for permission from the perspective of someone working in open access/repository support. The…
UKCoRR welcomes the results of a recent exercise – undertaken by UK librarians, repository managers and Sherpa Services – that has shown that the results produced by SHERPA/FACT (Funders & Authors Compliance Tool) have an accuracy rate of over 95% The FACT service was developed to help researchers get a simple answer to the question…
Following their consultation in the summer of last year[1] HEFCE have released their policy on open access in the post-2014 REF process. This is the third open access policy from a major UK funder in as many years and there are lot of reasons to be cheerful. HEFCE’s policy as published this morning is a…
Following on from the last blog post made just under a month ago when I reported on the evidence given to the House of Lords inquiry into the Government’s implementation of their open access policy. UKCoRR submitted a further evidence document on open access to the House of Commons, Business Innovation and Skills Committee inquiry. The…
As I’m sure people are aware there are currently two government committee inquiries under way about the implementation of the Finch Report and on issues around the RCUK Policy on Open Access to research outputs. UKCoRR prepared a written submission as part of the inquiry and the full written submissions have been released (being updated…