UK Open Access Developments – Implementing the Finch 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, is that authors (and their institutions) should be charged for publishing articles in learned journals which will then be made freely available on open access.  The implications for scholars, learned societies, publishers and libraries are enormous and some of these viewpoints were energetically presented at the conference.  Read more…