Eve, Martin Paul and Inglis, Kitty and Prosser, David and Speicher, Lara and Stone, Graham (2017) Cost Estimates of an Open-Access Mandate for Monographs in the UK’s Third Research Excellence Framework. Insights: the UKSG journal 30 (3), pp. 89-102. ISSN 2048-7754.
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Abstract
The recent Consultation on the Second Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the United Kingdom contains an annex that signals the extension of the open-access mandate to monographs. In the service of promoting discussion, rather than prescribing a forward route, this article estimates the costs of implementing such a mandate based on REF 2014 volume, taking the criteria signalled in the annex, and identifies funding sources that could support it. We estimate that to publish 75% of anticipated monographic submission output for the next REF would require approximately £96m investment over the census period. This is equivalent to £19.2m per year. Academic library budgets as they are currently apportioned would not support this cost. However, these sums are but a fraction of the total Quality-Related Funding (QR), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and Economic and Social Research Council (ESCR) budgets. We close with a series of provocative suggestions for how the mandate could be implemented.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Martin Eve |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Sep 2017 10:15 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:42 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/19672 |
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