The document summarizes the HEFCE Open Access policy introduced in April 2014 that requires journal articles and conference proceedings with an ISSN produced by UK higher education institutions to be made available through open access repositories with a maximum embargo period of 12 months for STEM fields and 24 months for arts, humanities, and social science fields. It also discusses the benefits of the policy in permanently changing author habits, enabling broader discoverability of research outputs, and being low-cost for universities. Improvements mentioned include shortening embargo periods, including books and book chapters, and requiring authors to retain rights to their publications.

1. HEFCE Open Access Policy
Dr. Nancy Pontika
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)
Knowledge Media institute
The Open University
United Kingdom
@nancypontika

2. 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%

3. 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

4. HEFCE Open Access Policy
Introduced 1st
April 2014 – Implementation date 1st
April 2016
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Green policy – compliance via repositories
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Journal articles and conference proceedings with an ISSN
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Maximum embargo periods: 12 mos. STEM, 24 mos. AHSS
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Machine readable access
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Deposit time frame: 3 months

5. Major UK OA Policies and Horizon2020
UK provides 60% of outputs via green OA
Policy Output type Green/Gold
OA
Embargo License
HEFCE
Policy
Journal
articles &
Conference
Proceedings
Green 12 mos. STEM
24 mos. AHSS
Machine
readable
Horizon2020
Policy
All peer-
reviewed
scientific
publications
Green 6 mos. STEM
12 mos. AHSS
Machine
readable
RCUK
Policy
Journal
articles &
Conference
Proceedings
Preference
on Gold but
Green is
possible
12 mos. STEM
24 mos. AHSS
CC-BY or
CC-BY-NC

6. HEFCE Policy : benefits & improvements
Benefits:
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Permanently change author habits
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Enables broader discoverability of the output
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Green is cheap for universities
Improvements:
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Shorter embargo periods
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Inclusion of books or chapters like Horizon2020
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Require authors to retain the rights of their
publications

7. Thank you!

8. Reusing and Reproducing
Open Access Content
Dr. Nancy Pontika
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)
Knowledge Media institute
The Open University
United Kingdom
@nancypontika

9. What does “research reusability” mean?
Ascertaining scientific results!
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Availability of the scientific method
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Allows research reproduction
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Enables transparency in research
methodology
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Saves money and time for researchers and universities
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Increases impact of the research work

10. What can be made reusable?
Everything that could possibly be useful!
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Laboratory notebooks/diaries
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Methodology details
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Experiment results
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Software code
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Equipment details
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Ground theory of the experiment
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Application details, i.e. background modelling
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Mathematical proofs

11. Guidelines to enable Open Science
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Code
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Data
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Documentation
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Workflow

12. 12/85
Reusability tools

13. Discovering Content Services
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CORE – metadata and full-text harvesting of open access
research outputs and API
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OpenDOAR – open access repositories around the world
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Jisc Publications Router – metadata and full-text from journals
and subject repositories
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Directory of Open Access Journals – lists worldwide open
access journals
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SHERPA RoMEO – copyright and archiving policies
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SHERPA Juliet - research funders' open access policies

14. Thank you!