{"id":203,"date":"2011-06-06T15:56:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T15:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/?p=203"},"modified":"2011-06-06T16:01:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T16:01:27","slug":"203","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/2011\/06\/06\/203\/","title":{"rendered":"UK universities minister helps UK research councils affirm OA commitments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) and Research Councils UK (RCUK) &#8211; which includes the Medical Research Council &#8211; recently put out a joint statement reinforcing their open access commitments (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hefce.ac.uk\/news\/hefce\/2011\/rcuk.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This announcement came\u00a0in a speech by David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, showing the extent to which the\u00a0principles of open access are gaining ground.<\/p>\n<p>The RCUK position on\u00a0open access\u00a0specifically mentions their support for the\u00a0author-pays model.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Research Councils UK and HEFCE have a shared commitment to maintaining and improving the capacity of the UK research base to undertake research activity of world leading quality, and to ensuring that significant outputs from this activity are made available as widely as possible both within and beyond the research community. 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