HEFCE Open Access Policy

Dr. Nancy PontikaCORE (COnnecting REpositories)

Knowledge Media instituteThe Open University

United Kingdom

@nancypontika

Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)

Total HEFCE grant available for the 2015 – 2016 academic year is £3,971 million

18.5%

39.2%

35.7%

Research Excellence Framework (REF)

Excellence – Impact – Implementation

● Quality Research Outputs – 65%

● Impact – 20%

● Research Environment – 15%

Horizon2020: Maximise impact with Open Access and Open Data

HEFCE Open Access Policy Introduced 1st April 2014 – Implementation date 1st April 2016

● Green policy – compliance via repositories

● Journal articles and conference proceedings with an ISSN

● Maximum embargo periods: 12 mos. STEM, 24 mos. AHSS

● Machine readable access

● Deposit time frame: 3 months

Major UK OA Policies and Horizon2020 UK provides 60% of outputs via green OA

Policy Output type Green/GoldOA

Embargo License

HEFCE Policy

Journal articles & Conference Proceedings

Green 12 mos. STEM24 mos. AHSS

Machine readable

Horizon2020 Policy

All peer-reviewed scientific publications

Green 6 mos. STEM12 mos. AHSS

Machine readable

RCUK Policy

Journal articles & Conference Proceedings

Preference on Gold but Green is possible

12 mos. STEM24 mos. AHSS

CC-BY or CC-BY-NC

HEFCE Policy : benefits & improvements

Benefits:● Permanently change author habits● Enables broader discoverability of the output● Green is cheap for universities

Improvements: ● Shorter embargo periods● Inclusion of books or chapters like Horizon2020● Require authors to retain the rights of their

publications

Thank you!

Reusing and Reproducing Open Access Content

Dr. Nancy PontikaCORE (COnnecting REpositories)

Knowledge Media instituteThe Open University

United Kingdom

@nancypontika

What does “research reusability” mean?

Ascertaining scientific results!

● Availability of the scientific method

● Allows research reproduction

● Enables transparency in research methodology

● Saves money and time for researchers and universities

● Increases impact of the research work

What can be made reusable?

Everything that could possibly be useful!

● Laboratory notebooks/diaries● Methodology details● Experiment results● Software code ● Equipment details ● Ground theory of the experiment ● Application details, i.e. background modelling● Mathematical proofs

Guidelines to enable Open Science

● Code

● Data

● Documentation

● Workflow

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Reusability tools

Discovering Content Services ● CORE – metadata and full-text harvesting of open access

research outputs and API

● OpenDOAR – open access repositories around the world

● Jisc Publications Router – metadata and full-text from journals and subject repositories

● Directory of Open Access Journals – lists worldwide open access journals

● SHERPA RoMEO – copyright and archiving policies

● SHERPA Juliet - research funders' open access policies

Thank you!