Royaume-Uni : New service launches to clarify journal compliance with REF

« We are pleased to announce the availability of SHERPA REF.

SHERPA REF beta is a web service – funded and endorsed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) – that allows authors and institutions to quickly, accurately and easily check whether a journal they wish to publish in complies with open access (OA) policy for the Research Excellence Framework (REF).

The policy requires journal articles and conference proceedings accepted for publication after 1 April 2016, to be made OA to be eligible for submission to the next REF. Universities need to ensure their submissions are eligible and comply with current policy under the four UK higher education funding bodies: HEFCE, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW), Scottish Funding Council (SFC) and the Department for Employment and Learning in Northern Ireland (DELNI). (…) »

source > https://www.jisc.ac.uk, 23 mars 2016

• Mots-clés : 
• Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC),
• Libre accès,
• Open Access,
• Outil,
• Royaume-Uni