Research Councils UK (RCUK)

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UK Funder Explains Clamp-Down On Open Access Violators

Richard Van Noorden | Nature.com | April 9, 2014

Since 2006, the giant medical-research charity Wellcome Trust has asked the researchers it funds to make their articles free to read online. Last year, it turned up pressure on scientists to comply, or see their funding withheld.

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UK House Of Commons Select Committee Publishes Report Criticising RCUK’s Open Access Policy

Richard Poynder | Open and Shut? | September 10, 2013

The House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee has today published a critical report on the Open Access (OA) policy introduced on April 1st by Research Councils UK (RCUK). Read More »

UK Research Funders Announce Grants For Open-Access Publishing

Richard Van Noorden | Nature | November 8, 2012

The United Kingdom’s research-funding agencies will together spend more than £100 million (US$159 million) over the next five years to help pay for taxpayer-funded research papers to be free to read, they announced today. Read More »

We Need To Talk About Open Access

Stephen Curry | Reciprocal Space | November 24, 2012

Last week I spoke on open access at the annual conference of Research Libraries UK (RLUK).[...] Read More »