The Research Communications Strategy project has released Current Issues in Research Communications: Open Access—The View from the Academy. Three prior reports are also available.
Here's an excerpt:
This is the fourth and final quarterly report to JISC from the Research Communications Strategy (RCS) project. In addition to a strategic overview of developments and issues in the sector, it contains a number of recommendations for further action. It includes:
- initial results from the RCS?s recent opinion-gathering activities on attitudes to open access among researchers and senior managers in HEIs
- comments on some ongoing issues relevant to the open access (OA) agenda
- suggested approaches to future OA advocacy.
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