{"id":2183,"date":"2013-04-09T20:42:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T20:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2013-04-10T08:26:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T08:26:14","slug":"impact-factors-the-revised-rcuk-open-access-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2013\/04\/09\/impact-factors-the-revised-rcuk-open-access-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact Factors \u2014 the revised RCUK open access guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has happened. Yesterday RCUK published the revised guidelines on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcuk.ac.uk\/research\/Pages\/outputs.aspx\">new open access policy<\/a> and, as <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2013\/03\/14\/impact-factors-rcuk-provides-a-chance-to-act\/\">requested by this blog<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2013\/03\/21\/impact-factors-letter-to-rcuk\/\">everyone who signed up in support<\/a>, the document (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcuk.ac.uk\/documents\/documents\/RCUKOpenAccessPolicy.pdf\">PDF<\/a>) now includes, on page one no less, a statement that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8220;When assessing proposals for research funding RCUK considers that it is the quality of the research proposed, and not where an author has or is intending to publish, that is of paramount importance&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>RCUK&#8217;s Alexandra Saxon was good enough to make particular mention of our request in her <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rcuk.ac.uk\/2013\/04\/09\/what-has-changed-in-the-guidance-for-the-rcuk-policy-on-open-access\/\">blogpost<\/a> to explain the most significant revisions in the new guidelines. I&#8217;m also grateful to Peter Coles (aka\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/telescoper\">@telescoper<\/a>) for <a href=\"http:\/\/telescoper.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/09\/open-access-update\/\">noticing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is only a small step on the road to elimination of the <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2012\/08\/13\/sick-of-impact-factors\/\">pernicious effects<\/a> of impact factors on our processes of assessment. There is no case for resting on laurels. We still need leading scientists, other funders, universities and journals to listen to the mood music and respond in a like manner and suggestions for how to achieve that will be most welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has happened. Yesterday RCUK published the revised guidelines on its new open access policy and, as requested by this blog and everyone who signed up in support, the document (PDF) now includes, on page one no less, a statement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2013\/04\/09\/impact-factors-the-revised-rcuk-open-access-guidelines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[243,242,145,161],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-access-2","tag-alexandra-saxon","tag-blogging-2","tag-open-access","tag-rcuk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}