1. Phil Sykes – University of Liverpool
UKSG Conference, Bournemouth 2012

4.  What’s happened so far
 Where we are now
 Some thoughts on what
we do next

5.  High hopes at the turn of the century
and gentle progress since the Budapest
Declaration in 2002
 Laaslo and Bjork survey in 2010
indicated that
◦ 2.7% of published articles going into
institutional repositories
◦ 5.3% into Open Access journals
◦ 2% Open Access in hybrid journals

6.  UK Government very unsupportive to OA
until recently
 Profound change with the appointment of
strongly pro open access David Willets
 Willetts convened Round Table in March
2011 saying issue was not “whether” OA but
“when” and “how
 Finch Group convened to answer the
question “How can we make a
breakthrough”

7.  OA best taken forward through Gold
Open Access
 Earmarked funding should be
provided by research funder for OA
 Articles should be made available on a
liberal Creative Commons licence (CC-
BY)

8.  Gold makes it possible for articles to
be released on a liberal reuse licence.
Minimum obstacles to text-mining
etc.
 Needed to recommend something that
would effect a dynamic changes
 Version of record of the article
becomes instantly available- no
waiting

9.  Researchers they funded had to publish on
an OA basis in journals that complied with
their policy
◦ Gold option; or
◦ Green option with maximum six month embargo
period (12 in social sciences and humanities
◦ Provided funding for 45% to be published on Gold
OA basis in 2013-14
◦ Required CC-BY

10.  Allowed longer embargo periods for Green
when the publisher provides a Gold option
which the author doesn’t take up (Elsevier
interpreting that as allowing 48 months!)
 OA is “a journey”. No need for 100% of
articles to be in OA form in year 1. 45% have
to be in OA form in 2013-14; but no
prescription as to balance of Gold and Green

11.  Central proposition: in order to be submitted
to REF 2020 research outputs, subject to
exceptions to be agreed, have to be
published in OA form
 Tone more even handed as between Green
and Gold than RCUK policy
 HEFCE not making any specified funding
available
 On licences and embargoes would like to
align with RCUK

12. The triumph of
Open Access is now
inevitable
Thank you. Goodbye

13.  The current situation results from a very
fortuitous combination of circumstances:
David Willetts and key personnel in funding
bodies all strongly pro-OA
 So we have to be resolute and make use of
the improbable opportunity we now have.
 We have to provide strong support nationally
through our professional bodies and skilled
advocacy on campus
 We have to make Gold work too!

14. Phil Sykes – University of Liverpool
UKSG Conference, Bournemouth 2012