The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has welcomed the 'Heading for the open road: costs and benefits for transitions in scholarly communications report', which adds to the growing knowledge into the different publishing models for UK research.
JISC co-funded the report with the Research Information Network, the Publishing Research Consortium, Research Libraries UK and the Wellcome Trust, to look at the UK scholarly communications system; particularly the five possible routes for academics and researchers to disseminate their work. The report suggests that encouraging open access appears to be a good way forward for the UK's scholarly communications community and in particular via gold or green routes. It is consistent with previous research in coming to this conclusion.
JISC will be broadcasting a pre-recorded roundtable discussion on why it is important for universities and researchers to be aware of the UK's scholarly communications publishing models on May 26, 2011.
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