Act on Acceptance: Open Access and the next REF

In order to be eligible for the next REF, the final peer-reviewed version of journal articles and conference papers (with an ISSN) must be deposited in an open access repository within three months of acceptance for publication. HEFCE’s requirements are designed to ‘increase substantially the amount of scholarly material that is made available in an open-access form’.

What this means for researchers:

• failure to act will make research outputs ineligible for the next REF
• requires additional action; meeting the open access requirements of other funders is not enough

 For more information, click here: http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/next-ref/