Open access funds ‘adequate’, government maintains

By Holly Else. Adequate funding has been allotted for universities to meet the cost of open access, the government has maintained. 
The comments come in a response to an inquiry by the Commons Business, Innovation and Skills committee, whose final report in September questioned aspects of the way open-access policy has been formulated. 
In its response – published by the BIS committee today - the government said that universities have now received “adequate funding” from Research Councils UK to meet the cost of open access. More...