[Open-access] [open-science] Just in: Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework

Mon Mar 31 10:10:54 UTC 2014

I've written a brief (and mostly positive) analysis on SV-POW!:
http://svpow.com/2014/03/31/hefces-new-open-access-policy-for-post-2014-outputs/

-- Mike.


On 31 March 2014 10:49, Rayna <rayna.st at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nature's take:
> http://www.nature.com/news/uk-open-access-movement-sways-towards-low-cost-repositories-1.14953
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> 2014-03-31 11:37 GMT+02:00 Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>:
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>> Thanks Michelle,
>> That would explain the CC-NC - and that's what Hargreaves has gone for
>> with content-mining. That's understandable as this is the law and requires
>> to be compatible with whatever UK and EU already has.
>>
>> But I can't see any rationale for ND.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Michelle Brook <michelle.brook at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's disappointing, I agree. However, I think the rational, sadly, is the
>>> response to the consultations they've carried out (Annex B and C).
>>> Interestingly there is  an interesting paragraph, buried away in Annex B
>>> that states:
>>>
>>> " We have decided to adopt a two-tier approach to deal with this. The
>>> first tier of the policy is as follows: outputs that allow anyone to search,
>>> read and download the text without charge will be compliant with the access
>>> requirement in the policy. This so-called 'gratis open access' can generate
>>> huge benefit to researchers and the wider public, and is eminently
>>> achievable within the existing licensing environment. However, we recognise
>>> the benefits that more permissive licences can bring, not least that they
>>> can facilitate the automated use and re-use of content, which will help
>>> researchers to analyse and reuse the corpus of knowledge far more
>>> efficiently and imaginatively than before. We strongly encourage
>>> institutions to provide access to outputs in a way that enables this
>>> so-called 'libre open access', and intend to give credit to those that do so
>>> in the research environment component of the next REF. Further details of
>>> this will be developed in the coming years as part of our planning work for
>>> the next REF"
>>>
>>>
>>> We, as a community, really need to be showing the value of CC-BY
>>> licensing. We need to create use cases and stories to tell policy makers
>>> (and many academics) about why NC/ND is bad, about why content mining is
>>> valuable/useful.
>>>
>>> As an aside.. the Open Access blog is available for people who want to
>>> write these kinds of use cases (from around the world) & get them out in the
>>> public - I'm trying to actively hunt down these stories. Tell the world an
>>> explicit example of how content-mining has, or will, help you/your area of
>>> research.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Michelle
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 31 March 2014 09:44, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Nor my interpretation.
>>>> I'd like to see HEFCE's rationale. In Science the primary beneficiaries
>>>> of ND are the publishers who then have a monopoly on selling reprints.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Christian Heise
>>>> <christian.heise at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the link!
>>>>>
>>>>> Just sad that it says: "While we do not request that outputs are made
>>>>> available under any particular licence, we advise that outputs licensed
>>>>> under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Non-Derivative (CC
>>>>> BY-NC-ND) licence would meet this requirement."
>>>>>
>>>>> That's not my "Open".
>>>>>
>>>>> Yours,
>>>>> Christian
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 31.03.2014 um 09:20 schrieb Rayna <rayna.st at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Just a quick note: the Higher Education Funding Council for England
>>>>> (HEFCE) has issued a report with policy guidelines and recommendations
>>>>> regarding Open Acces. The text is available here:
>>>>> https://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201407/name,86771,en.html (Haven't
>>>>> read the whole yet)
>>>>>
>>>>> There is an annexe dedicated to text-mining, which will be of
>>>>> particular interest to some of you here ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Rayna
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>
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>> Peter Murray-Rust
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