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Since a few years ago, any EU or UK public funded research (which is most university research) must be published as open-access. It is a requirement of the fund

Since a few years ago, any EU or UK public funded research (which is most university research) must be published as open-access. It is a requirement of the funding. So this is already happening. However, it will need to be done by a greater proportion of the world to be effective. The only problem is that the method of open access publishing is usually to pay a few grand to the publisher for the privilege.

return0 10y ago
That can be a lot of money. E.g. elsevier charges $5000 / article : http://www.cell.com/rights-sharing-embargoes http://www.cell.com/rights-sharing-embargoes And that is money that should be going to research.
- semi-extrinsic 10y ago
  I completely agree. I've said it before, pay-for open access (aka. "gold open access") needs to go die in a fire.
- mandor 10y ago
  The actual rule for European grant (H2020) is "either publish in open-access or put the paper on arxiv or similar archives". We can still publish in non-open access journals provided that we put the paper on an open access repository.
xioxox 10y ago
Are you sure? I think it's only funders like Wellcome that require open access. My UK collaborators (in physical sciences) don't publish in open access journals.
- genericpseudo 10y ago
  Do they self-archive? That was common practice back when I was an active researcher (early to mid 2000s).
- mnw21cam 10y ago
  Wellcome has required it for a while. Any papers you plan to use in the Research Excellence Framework for 2020 (for those not acquainted, an exercise every few years where UK universities get to say "look how good we are, we published this many papers, please keep funding us") must be available as open access. It isn't necessary for these papers to have gone the gold open access route (where you pay a *!&^%-ton to the publisher), so you could instead upload the non-published version to a preprint server (which is a lot cheaper).

return0 10y ago

That can be a lot of money. E.g. elsevier charges $5000 / article : http://www.cell.com/rights-sharing-embargoes http://www.cell.com/rights-sharing-embargoes And that is money that should be going to research.

semi-extrinsic 10y ago
I completely agree. I've said it before, pay-for open access (aka. "gold open access") needs to go die in a fire.
mandor 10y ago
The actual rule for European grant (H2020) is "either publish in open-access or put the paper on arxiv or similar archives". We can still publish in non-open access journals provided that we put the paper on an open access repository.

xioxox 10y ago

Are you sure? I think it's only funders like Wellcome that require open access. My UK collaborators (in physical sciences) don't publish in open access journals.

genericpseudo 10y ago
Do they self-archive? That was common practice back when I was an active researcher (early to mid 2000s).
mnw21cam 10y ago
Wellcome has required it for a while. Any papers you plan to use in the Research Excellence Framework for 2020 (for those not acquainted, an exercise every few years where UK universities get to say "look how good we are, we published this many papers, please keep funding us") must be available as open access. It isn't necessary for these papers to have gone the gold open access route (where you pay a *!&^%-ton to the publisher), so you could instead upload the non-published version to a preprint server (which is a lot cheaper).