Communicating open access policies

Steven Hill

Head of Research Policy

Open Access Advocacy: Joining the Dots

20 March 2015

@stevenhill

• Open access is complicated

Communicating open access

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• Open access is complicated

• Researchers (mostly) aren’t interested

Communicating open access

• Open access is complicated

• Researchers (mostly) aren’t interested

• There are many voices, not all with aligned messages…

Communicating open access

PublishersFunders

Librarians

IT teams

Repository managers

Research offices

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Learned Societies

• Open access is complicated

• Researchers (mostly) aren’t interested

• There are many voices, not all with aligned messages…

• …but fewer advocates than researchers.

Communicating open access

• Open access is complicated

• Researchers (mostly) aren’t interested

• There are many voices, not all with aligned messages…

• …but fewer advocates than researchers.

• So…

Communicating open access

Simplicity

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Outputs submitted to a post-2014REF should be “open access”.

The core principle of the policy

Clarity

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Our objectives

• Significantly increase the uptake of open access options

• Protect author choice as much as possible

• Stimulate the deposit of work in repositories

Collaboration

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Consistency

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Thank you for listening

s.hill@hefce.ac.uk

@stevenhill

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