Europe PMC Team

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Earlier  
this month HEFCE [invited  
advice](http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/newsarchive/2013/name,78750,en.html)
on developing their open access policy in the post-2014 Research  
Excellence Framework (REF).

Both  
EMBL-EBI, who run the Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) service, and
the UK  
members of the Europe PMC Funders' Group, strongly support HEFCE's
movement  
towards requiring that all outputs submitted to the post-2014 REF are
published  
open access. However, both groups also have concerns about HEFCE's
exclusive  
focus on institutional repositories (IRs), and recommend that in
addition to  
IRs HEFCE also include subject repositories, such as Europe PMC, as a
valid  
archive for research submitted to the post-2014 REF.

You  
can read the full EMBL-EBI response
[here](http://europepmc.org/docs/HEFCE_REF_EBI_Response.pdf), and the  
full Europe PMC Funders' Group response
[here](http://europepmc.org/docs/HEFCE_REF_Funders_response.pdf).
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Earlier this month HEFCE invited advice on developing their open access policy in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).  Both EMBL-EBI, who run the Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) service, and the UK members of the Europe PMC Funders’ Group, strongly support HEFCE’s movement towards requiring that all outputs submitted to the post-2014 REF are published open access.

Messages de Rogue Scholar

Institutional and Subject-Specific Repositories: Responding to HEFCE’s Call for Advice on Open Access