[Open-access] [open-science] House of Lords (UK) Open Access - submissions invited

Fri Jan 11 12:10:29 UTC 2013

By all means, yes. But what's CRUCIAL is that we send our individual
responses as soon as possible, and don't let that get held up or
derailed by a potentially long-winded process of putting together one
we can all sign up to.

-- Mike.

On 11 January 2013 11:20, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Should we try to get a response together
>
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> The UK's House of Lords (upper chamber of Parliament) Science & Technology
> Committee is conducting an enquiry into Open Access. Written submissions are
> welcome. Individuals and organisations are invited to give their views on
> the actions taken by Government and RCUK following publication of the Finch
> report.
>
> The HoL has issued guidance
> <http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_7334/hol-guidance-notes-open-access-enquiry>
> on how to make written submissions.
>
> In particular, there are four issues highlighted by the committee:
>
> support for universities in the form of funds to cover article processing
> charges, and the response of universities and HEIs to these efforts
> embargo periods for articles published under the Green model
> engagement with publishers, universities, learned societies and other
> stakeholders in the development of research council Open Access policies and
> guidance
> challenges and concerns raised by the scientific and publishing communities,
> and how these have been addressed
>
>
> The deadline is 18th January.
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