Read my article in the THE this week as I examine some potential problems in interpreting the results of the REF on 18 December 2014. Please feel free to leave comments here, and also on the THE’s own website.
There are probably lots of candidates for the title ‘most talked about but least understood’ challenge facing researchers in UK universities, but surely ‘Open Access’ is high amongst these. For some, the question may simply be ‘what is Open Access?’; more likely the question is ‘why?’, or perhaps ‘why should I pay an article processing charge to publish my work when my Library is still paying a subscription to the
