block grants

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Funding Model For Open Access Unveiled

Paul Jump | Times Higher Education | November 8, 2012

The distribution of more than £100 million in research council funding for open access article fees will be directly proportional to how much universities have charged the councils for direct labour costs over the last three years. Read More »

One Size Fits All?: Social Science And Open Access

David Mainwaring | The Disorder of Things | November 14, 2012

The third post in our small series on open access, publication shifts on the horizon and how it all matters to IR and social science, this time by David Mainwaring [...]. Read More »

RCUK Announces Block Grants For Universities To Aid Drives To Open Access To Research Outputs

Press Release | Research Councils UK | November 8, 2012

Research Councils UK has today, 8th November, announced the details of the block grant funding mechanism that it is introducing to aid implementation of its policy on Open Access that was announced in July and is due to come into effect in April 2013. Read More »