Description
The REF 2021 Open Access mandate was established in recognition of the benefits of OA publication and in an effort to increase the proportion of UK-funded research that is openly accessible. The REF is, however, primarily an assessment of research quality, not availability. As researchers and academics selected their best outputs for REF submission, the possibility arose that an association would be implied between openness and quality. In order to find out whether this had happened at the University of Winchester, research-active staff were invited to complete a survey measuring the likelihood that they would choose Green and Gold OA for outputs that they perceived to be of particularly high quality. The results show that there may in fact be a perception amongst Winchester academics that Open Access is more appropriate for very good outputs than for those perceived to be mediocre. The implications of this are briefly discussed.| Period | 31 May 2022 |
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| Event title | UKSG 2022 Annual Conference |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Telford, United KingdomShow on map |