FW: [SCHOLCOMM] BLOG: Compliance is not the whole story

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Jun 14, 2018, 1:02:36 PM6/14/18

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Great new post from Danny

From: scholcom...@lists.ala.org <scholcom...@lists.ala.org> On Behalf Of Danny Kingsley
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Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] BLOG: Compliance is not the whole story

Dear all,

I have just published a blog commenting on the Research England report Monitoring sector progress towards compliance with funder open access policies.

Read “Compliance is not the whole story” here: https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=2074

A taster:

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Today, Research England released Monitoring sector progress towards compliance with funder open access policies the results of a survey they ran in August last year in conjunction with RCUK, Wellcome Trust and Jisc. <…>

The rather celebratory commentary from UKRI has focused on the compliance aspect – see the Research England’s press release: Over 80% of research outputs meet requirements of REF 2021 open access policy and the post by the Executive Chair of Research England David Sweeney, Open access – are we almost there for REF?

At risk of putting a dampener on the party I’d like to point a few things out. For a start, compliance with a policy is not the end goal of a policy in itself. While clearly the UK policies over the past five years have increased the amount of UK research that is available open access, we do need to ask ourselves ‘so what?’.

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Enjoy!

Danny

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