--- layout: post status: publish published: true title: I'm appearing before the House of Commons BIS Select Committee into Open Access wordpress_id: 2659 wordpress_url: https://www.martineve.com/?p=2659 date: !binary |- MjAxMy0wNC0xNSAwODo1MjoxNiArMDIwMA== date_gmt: !binary |- MjAxMy0wNC0xNSAwNzo1MjoxNiArMDIwMA== categories: - Open Access - Politics tags: - OA comments: [] --- <p>I'm very pleased to announce that, this Tuesday, 16th April 2013, I will be joining the Commons Select Committee <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/business-innovation-and-skills/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">inquiry into open access</a> being hosted by the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee on at the Palace of Westminster. At 12pm I will be presenting evidence on open access publishing alongside a list of distinguished speakers, including those representing:</p> <ul> <li>Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers</li> <li>British Academy</li> <li>Public Library of Science</li> <li>Reed Elsevier</li> <li>Professor Stevan Harnad, Professor of Web Science, University of Southampton</li> <li>Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)</li> <li>Research Councils UK (RCUK)</li> <li>SPARC Europe</li> <li>Political Studies Association</li> <li>The Russell Group</li> <li>Professor Sir Ian Diamond, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen and Chair of Universities UK’s Research Policy Network</li> </ul> <p>For more information, see the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/business-innovation-and-skills/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">Business Innovation and Skills Committee website</a>.</p>