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REF2020 at LSHTM
Improving health worldwide www.lshtm.ac.uk
• Please forward newly-accepted manuscripts to [email protected], enclosing:
• peer-reviewed accepted manuscript• date of acceptance/acceptance email • embargo terms, if applicable
What?
Author manuscript
Where will my manuscript go?
It will be deposited in LSHTM Research Online, the School’s open access institutional repository
Why?
• To fulfil its aim of increasing substantially the proportion of research that is made available by open access (OA) in the UK, the four UK higher education funding bodies have introduced a requirement that outputs submitted to the post-2014 REF be made available in an open-access form.
• Open access refers to unrestricted, online access to the published findings of research. In their role as a national funding body for research, HEFCE is committed to supporting successful approaches to open-access publishing and increasing public access to research findings.
This will:• enable the prompt and widespread dissemination of
research findings• benefit both the efficiency of the research process
and economic growth driven by publicly funded research
• increase public understanding of research.
Why?
OA Citation Advantage
http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/openaccessarchive/Conference%20presentations/Swan%20-Trieste%20FEST.pdf
• The requirement applies only to journal articles and conference proceedings with an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN).
• It will not apply to monographs, book chapters, other long-form publications, working papers, creative or practice-based research outputs, or data.
Exemptions: long-form
Exemptions: embargoes
• It is recognised that publishers often impose an embargo before repositories can make manuscripts openly available.
• In recognition of the embargoes applied by many publishers, the maximum permitted embargo is 12 months (for Panel A)
Exemptions: embargoes
• The embargo period does not provide exemption/extension from the requirement to deposit within three months of acceptance
• The article can be kept closed access until the embargo expires. (In such instances the article can still form part of the REF).
Exemptions: embargoes
• If the paper will not be made open access until after the maximum embargo, researchers must be confident that the journal/proceeding is the most appropriate publication for the work.
How do I check if the journal is REF compliant?
What about paid OA?
You still need to send your manuscript - we
can replace it with the Gold OA version when it is published.
Are other universities doing this?
Information
REF2020 at LSHTM:http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/refoac
Complete list of FAQs:http://www.hefce.ac.uk/rsrch/oa/FAQ/rch/oa/FAQ/
