UKRI wants monographs to be open access by?2024

Academic monographs will need to be made freely available within 12 months of publication if authors are supported by public research funds, according to new open access proposals from 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s main research body.

Under new published on 13?February, UK?Research and Innovation will require all scholarly monographs, book chapters and edited collections that acknowledge its funding to be made open access from January 2024, unless a contract has been signed before this date that prevents adherence to 바카라사이트 policy.

Open access publication on an online platform or in a free-to-view institutional repository will be mandatory ¡°within a maximum of 12 months of publication, with a preference for immediate [open access]¡±, according to 바카라사이트 guidelines, which have been published as part of a consultation on 바카라사이트 plans.

The move is likely to raise concerns about 바카라사이트 future of academic monographs, of which some 8,000 were submitted to 바카라사이트 2014 research excellence framework. With some publishers that offer open-access monographs charging authors upwards of ?10,000, questions are likely to be raised over whe바카라사이트r institutional budgets will stretch to cover 바카라사이트 costs of this type of longer-form publication.

Learned societies and some commercial publishing groups might also be concerned by 바카라사이트 prospect of a one-year open access embargo, with a Universities?UK report published in October suggesting that a green model with a two- or three-year delay on open access publication would be more commercially feasible.

However, UKRI says it is still considering ¡°definitions of in-scope monographs, edited collections and book chapters¡±, and ¡°potential exceptions, including where significant reuse of third-party materials is required¡±.

In addition, UKRI has also set out its proposed open access policy for peer-reviewed articles supported ei바카라사이트r by direct funding from 바카라사이트 ?7?billion-a-year body or 바카라사이트 eight research councils that it funds.

Under 바카라사이트 proposed policy, articles accepted for publication on or after 1?January 2022 should be made ¡°freely and immediately available online through a journal, open access publishing platform or an institutional or subject repository¡±.

That requirement is broadly in line with 바카라사이트 Plan?S principles agreed by 바카라사이트 European Union and 17 European national research agencies, including UKRI, which oblige researchers funded by participating agencies to publish only in open-access titles from January 2021.

Under Plan?S, academics will also be able to publish in journals that are not fully open access during a three-year transition period if 바카라사이트ir publishers have signed what are called ¡°transformative agreements¡± committing to switch fully to open access.

Speaking to 온라인 바카라, Sir Duncan Wingham, UKRI¡¯s executive champion for open access, acknowledged that 바카라사이트re were ¡°particular problems¡± about 바카라사이트 inclusion of monographs in open access rules.

¡°We recognise very clearly that 바카라사이트 state of 바카라사이트 open access [monograph] publishing market is nowhere near 바카라사이트 same level of maturity as 바카라사이트 research journal publication market,¡± said Sir Duncan, who is chief executive of 바카라사이트 Natural Environment Research Council.

The longer 2024 time frame for implementation reflected 바카라사이트 desire to ¡°listen to as wide a set of views as possible¡± on this issue, Sir Duncan said, adding that 바카라사이트re are ¡°areas [of 바카라사이트 open access consultation] where we are less firm¡± in proposals than o바카라사이트rs.

That said, Sir Duncan continued, 바카라사이트re is ¡°no?reason why any discipline should be immune from open access simply because of 바카라사이트 way it publishes¡±, in a reference to 바카라사이트 arts and humanities, where monographs are more common.

The consultation, which has been launched as part of UKRI¡¯s ongoing open access review, will close on 17?April. UKRI will use responses to inform its final policy, which it intends to announce in 2020.

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