Dr Robert Parker, Chief Executive of the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), has welcomed the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee's report on the implementation of open access (OA).
According to Dr Parker, the outcomes of the inquiry respond directly to the serious concerns raised by both the research community and scientific publishers. In particular, the previous lack of clarity over embargo periods for green open access had been of great concern to the RSC.
He also welcomed the Committee's confirmation that different embargo periods will be required for different disciplines, and that RCUK have now confirmed their endorsement of the decision tree prepared by the Publishers Association last year.
Dr Parker has welcomed the fact that, among the recommendations, RCUK is being asked to assess the suitability of the Creative Commons Attribution licence for different disciplines. The RSC supports this review, and is open to engaging with RCUK to identify the most appropriate licence for the chemical science community.
The RSC supports OA and all RSC journals enable authors to publish their work in this way.
