Open Access
| Apr 2009 |
Biosciences Federation welcomes Universities UK guidelines on funding open access publishing
(External link to press release hosted on Biosciences Federation website)
The Biosciences Federation supports the recommendations made by the recent Universities UK report on open access publishing. This report lays out guidelines to make it easier for researchers to access funds to satisfy funding bodies’ open access mandates.
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| Sep 2008 |
Biosciences Federation Authors' Guide to UK funders' policies on Open Access
(External link to guidelines hosted on Biosciences Federation web site.)
Many funding bodies, such as the Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council and others, now require authors to make their published peer reviewed research papers freely available to all within a certain deadline following publication. The Biosciences Federation has issued helpful guidelines to authors on the key issues surrounding such policies, to help them understand how to comply both with their funders' requirements and with the policies that the key journals have put in place to ensure they continue to be financially viable. |
| Jul 2008 |
Biosciences Federation survey on Open Access publishing
(External link to report hosted on Biosciences Federation website (pdf))
The Biosciences Federation commissioned a survey of its member learned societies and individual society members to ascertain the effect that Open Access might have on the publishing community and the funding structure of the learned societies themselves. The survey showed that increases in Open Access publishing could have a detrimental effect on funding streams to UK universities. UK learned societies, many of whom receive much of their income through journal publication, make an important financial contribution to UK universities. Unless author-side payments are adequately funded, any increase in Open Access publishing could threaten the funding streams of UK learned societies and thus UK universities. The Biosciences Federation now calls for urgent action by UK universities and Research Councils to make Open Access publishing funds more easily and readily accessible to researchers.
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| Mar 2007 |
Opening the literature or closing journals?
The Society for Endocrinology, in association with the Biosciences Federation, hosted a special symposium within its annual meeting, at which three of the most innovative speakers on the subject looked beyond the rhetoric to some of the facts and pragmatic issues that need to be taken into account, and the implications these might have for the best ways of moving forward, from your point of view as a researcher, and from the point of view of your societies and the journals you currently support. |
| Aug 2005 |
Society
for Endocrinology policy on self archiving on institutional and other
repositories
This is the Society's policy on the conditions under which articles
accepted for publication in its journals may be posted on other web sites,
such as institutional repositories or other open archives. It is also relevant
to authors funded by the NIH who may be considering whether to submit their
accepted manuscript to PubMed Central. Originally posted August 2005. |
| Jan 2005 |
 Opening
the literature or closing down journals? (pdf) (50kb) [from The
Endocrinologist]
Steve Byford explains why it's a
testing time
for journal
publishers. |
| Sep 2004 |
Open Access:
should journals be free for all? (pdf) (190kb) [from The
Endocrinologist]
The Society's publications director examines the issues and asks what a change
to open access would mean for science and the Society. |
| Mar 2004 |
SfE- Submission to
Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry into scientific
publications (pdf) (124kb)
The UK House of Commons Select Committee on Science & Technology conducted
an inquiry into scientific publishing during March and April 2004. The Society
for Endocrinology submitted evidence (see above). |
If you have any comments, please email Sue Thorn or Steve Byford.