Open Access Survey Launched
The Library's Open Access Transition team have been approaching a number of academic colleagues to find out how they manage their OA publications. A short survey has been launched; it will review existing procedures for managing outputs accepted for publication. This is to identify any support the Library can provide to enable researchers to comply easily with their funders’ open access publishing mandates. We are interested in the views of all researchers, not only those funded by RCUK and the Wellcome Trust, so please take a few moments to complete the survey and give us a clearer picture of how we can help. All responses will be confidential.At the end of the survey there is an opportunity to share comments or ask questions concerning Open Access and Queen Mary's intended response to RCUK and the Wellcome Trust's new requirements.
RCUK (the seven Research Councils) have recently announced changes to their Open Access policy starting on 1 April 2013; an outline of which can be viewed here.
The Wellcome Trust has already been supporting open access for output of research funded by the Trust. However, from 1 April 2013, they too are expanding their open access publishing policies by stipulating that research output can be used for commercial purposes as well whenever a publisher has been paid an open access fee. Their policy statement can be viewed here.
Queen Mary will receive a block grant to cover some of the Article Processing Cost (APC) of open access publishing for RCUK-funded projects; this block grant will be administered by the Library. Queen Mary Library also manages an institutional repository where researchers can deposit the accepted version of their paper. In order to ensure that we administer funds efficiently for Gold access and to support researchers in self-archiving their papers for Green access, we will need to know early in the process when a paper is accepted and through which one of the open access routes it is going to be published.
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