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 Following representations from learned societies, including the RAS,RCUK has revised its draft position statement.
In June 2005 RCUK published a draft position statement on access to research outputs which attracted a large number of comments including one from the the Society
 RAS_response_to_RCUK.pdf (41.92 KB 01.09.2005 00:00)
In the light of these, RCUK has released an updated position paper
position statement .pdf (75.70 KB 12.07.2006 14:34)
The key principles are:
• Ideas and knowledge derived from publicly-funded research must be made available and accessible for public use, interrogation and scrutiny, as widely, rapidly and effectively as practicable.
• Published research outputs must be subject to rigorous quality assurance, through effective peer review mechanisms.
• The models and mechanisms for publication and access to research results must be both efficient and cost-effective in the use of public funds.
• The outputs from current and future research must be preserved and remain accessible for future generations.
Research councils agree that their funded researchers should, where required to do so, deposit the outputs from research councils funded research in an acceptable repository. However 'individual disciplines will need to respond to the issues in this position paper in ways best aligned to their needs'. Consequently, individual research councils will provide specific guidance to their respective research communities.
The RCUK will:
• Organise a workshop jointly with interested learned societies to discuss the implications for them of self-archiving.
• Consult with the publishing community regarding copyright and licensing issues through existing forums. There is no intention that individual researchers will be expected to break publishers’ copyright or licensing agreements or to negotiate with publishers.
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• Undertake a research project to investigate the impact of author-pays publication and self-archiving on research publishing. This will involve 3 publishers including Blackwell, the publisher of the RAS' journals.The project will start late in 2006 and report in late 2008.
However RCUK has stressed that authors must be allowed to choose where to place their research for publication. It is for authors’ institutions to decide whether they are prepared to use funds for any page charges or other publishing fees.
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Last Updated on Friday, 09 April 2010 16:17 |
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Chief Executive, Professor Keith Mason, elaborates
The statemen on its web site is as follows...
'PPARC supports the sentiments in the RCUK position statement on research outputs and will consider, in discussion with other Councils as appropriate, what changes might now need to be made to published rules and guidance concerning research grant funding'
In response the Executive Secretary wrote to Professor Mason...
Dear Keith
The RAS is pleased that RCUK has decided to investigate the issues involved in alternative publishing and archiving models for scientific research. We were concerned that unless it was carefully managed the quality of published research and the viability of learned societies would be put at risk.
You will remember that the RAS defined its position in August 2005 in response to RCUK's draft position statement. Since then we have participated in a number of meetings with RCUK, publishers and other societies and feel well qualified to proffer advice and assistance on astronomy and geophysics research publishing. I hope PPARC will want to avail itself of this
Keith Mason, replied on18 July 2006
Dear David
The PPARC policy on access to research outputs is to support the policy to be adopted by most other councils of requiring papers to be self-archived, subject to review in 2008 following the completion of a study, to be commissioned by the research councils, into the impact of open access on the publishing sector.
The task for us now is to work with our sister councils on the detail of implementing this policy through amendments to grant guidance and conditions. The intention is to apply these conditions to grants submitted from October this year, recognising the time lag between grant submissions and generating publications.
The next real decision to be made, when consultation with learned societies might be appropriate, will be in 2008, following completion of the study, when the councils will need to consider whether the evidence supports continuation of the policy. I'm sure there will also be opportunities for the Society to contribute to the study itself.
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