August 15, 2024Open Access

On dropping the REF OA mandate for books (this time)

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Research England has dropped the mandate for OA books in its guidance for the next REF, saying that it will, now, apply instead by 2029. It is hard to see, given the extensive trailing of this mandate, what will be different by 2029.

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Martin Paul Eve (Thu,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e5c1e9b6db64358755973f https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59348/8b50z-agm52

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