The BIS Committee report states that the UK government was mistaken in focusing on Gold as the route to full Open Access. The Russel Group welcomes the BIS report.

In November 2012 a two-day Conference was organised in London by the Academy of Social Sciences  (sponsored by Times Higher Educational Supplement, Routledge, Wiley Blackwell and SAGE) to look at the implementation of the recommendations of the Finch Review for Open Access publishing in the UK.  A key recommendation of the Finch Review, now adopted as British government policy, […]

A summary and presentations are now available

Budapest Open Access Initiative reaffirmed and refreshed. Alma Swan, European advocacy for SPARC, is interviewed in the blog by Richard Poynder, independent journalist observing and reporting on the evolution of the Open Access (OA) movement

Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings – the Finch Group