Dans un éditorial du BMJ du 11 août 2012, plaidoyer convaicant de Peter Suber, directeur du Harvard Open Access Project. Un sous-titre "The right way to mix green and gold approaches". Plus de terigversations pour les autorités anglaises… et que va-t-il se passer en France ???
C'est clair : "On 16 July 2012, three major announcements transformed open access policy in the United Kingdom. The Research Councils UK (RCUK) announced a stronger version of the open access policy it originally adopted in 2006. The UK minister of universities and science announced that the government had accepted most of the recent open access recommendations from the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings that he appointed last September (informally called the Finch group after its convener, Janet Finch). Finally, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) announced plans to require open access to research submitted to the next Research Excellence Framework in 2014"
En juin, j'ai commenté le rapport Finch en faveur du système APC (Article Processing Charges) qui suppose que l'abonnement n'existe plus et que les auteurs payent…
Suber P. Ensuring open access for publicly funded research. BMJ 2012;345:e5184
