Exceptions in the UK funding councils’ open access policy will be made for researchers hired from abroad, the 成人VR视频 Funding Council for England’s head of research has pledged.
Research Councils UK has removed from its guidance on its open-access policy an exhortation for institutions and authors to make sure a “proper market in article fees” operates.
In a further sign of the growing scientific prominence of data sets, Nature Publishing Group has launched a new open-access platform that will peer review and publish detailed descriptions of their contents.
Longer embargo periods of up to 24 months for green open access will only apply when universities’ annual block grants for “gold” article fees have run out, Research Councils UK has confirmed.
A series of high-profile research scandals within social psychology have led to unjustified attacks on the whole academic discipline. Wolfgang Stroebe and Miles Hewstone declare that the majority must not suffer for a tiny minority’s misconduct
The UK’s higher education funding councils will not express a preference for either green or gold open access in their submission rules for future research excellence frameworks.
The UK’s higher education funding councils will not express a preference for either green or gold open access in their submission rules for future research excellence frameworks.
The lack of clarity over Research Councils UK’s new open access policy is “unacceptable” and government ministers should learn lessons from the confusion, according to a House of Lords report.
Open-access publishing, once a niche preoccupation, is now a hot-button issue. But concern is growing that unintended consequences of new publication mandates will cost individual scholars and the UK sector dear. Paul Jump reports
The publisher Sage has slashed the price of publishing in its flagship open-access journal to just $99 (?63) in the wake of concern about whether researchers in the humanities and social sciences will be able to afford to comply with the UK’s new open-access mandates.
