Open Access to Oxford Publications

It’s been a while since we reported on progress, but the departmental pilots are now starting. Read on to find out more. 1. REF Open Access policy The pilots are part of the project commissioned by the University’s Research Committee to evaluate how best to support and promote compliance with HEFCE’s open access policy for the next REF: for a journal article or conference contribution to be submitted, the final peer-reviewed (‘author accepted’) manuscript must be deposited in an institutional or subject repository within 3 months of the date of acceptance. The policy comes into effect fo