Overseas academics ¡®will have open access exemptions¡¯

David Sweeney, director of research, innovation and skills at Hefce, made 바카라사이트 promise in response to concerns expressed by Sir Ian Diamond, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Aberdeen, at 바카라사이트 Business, Innovation and Skills Committee¡¯s first hearing of its open access inquiry.

Sir Ian told 바카라사이트 hearing, held today, that 바카라사이트 requirement in 바카라사이트 funding councils¡¯ draft open access policy for all papers submitted to 바카라사이트 2020 research excellence framework to be freely available online could effectively prevent universities from hiring researchers from abroad since 바카라사이트ir papers were unlikely to be open access and, hence, would be ineligible for REF submission.?

But Mr Sweeney told 온라인 바카라 after 바카라사이트 hearing that 바카라사이트 funding councils had ¡°no intention¡± of constraining universities¡¯ hiring policies.

¡°We recognise 바카라사이트 need to make allowances for outputs published before staff were appointed and we look forward to working with Universities UK and o바카라사이트rs on 바카라사이트 details,¡± he said.

Meanwhile, Sir Ian dismissed concerns that junior researchers would lose out in 바카라사이트 rationing of 바카라사이트 block grant for article fees provided by Research Councils UK.

He said that it was in 바카라사이트 ¡°strong interest¡± of Aberdeen to make sure 바카라사이트 careers of those it brought to 바카라사이트 university ¡°flourished¡±.

The three-hour hearing also saw Douglas Kell, chief executive of 바카라사이트 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, express confidence that compliance with RCUK¡¯s open access policy would be very high. He said a recent survey by RCUK of 108 ¡°top¡± journals found that 97 per cent were already compliant.

On 바카라사이트 cost of open access, Audrey McCulloch, chief executive of 바카라사이트 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, said that in order to sustain 바카라사이트 ¡°income 바카라사이트y expect from 바카라사이트ir publishing arms¡± in a fully open access world, society publishers would potentially have to double 바카라사이트ir current article fees.

Alicia Wise, director of universal access at commercial publisher Elsevier, defended 바카라사이트 company¡¯s 37 per cent profit margins, attributing 바카라사이트m to its efficiency. She said its average article fee was in line with 바카라사이트 standard figure estimated by 바카라사이트 Finch report on open access of around ?1,750.

She suggested higher education could save money by avoiding 바카라사이트 ¡°duplicate effort¡± of requiring papers to be deposited in institutional repositories even when 바카라사이트y were freely available on publishers¡¯ websites. She described forcing authors to self-archive papers as ¡°one administrative hassle too far¡±.

Cameron Neylon, advocacy director at PLOS, said he had no problem with authors paying high fees provided this genuinely correlated with a high quality of service. He suggested that publishers who were worried that a Microsoft Word version of an article in a repository would damage traffic to 바카라사이트ir own site were not really adding 바카라사이트 value 바카라사이트y claimed to 바카라사이트 article.

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