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Open Access 

Open access publishing means publishing in a way that makes information freely available to the end user in an online form, normally with fewer licence and copyright restrictions than in some traditional forms of publishing.

There is a lot of evidence that publishing work on Open Access leads to higher use and higher citation rates.  It is also increasingly a requirement from funding bodies, and in the future journal articles and conference papers will have to be open access to be considered in the REF.

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Research Data Management

There is an increasing drive from the UK Government, Research Councils and other funding bodies to make publically-funded research available for the greater public good. In the past, publication of the results of such work has been the main route to achieving this, but now greater prominence is being placed on the wider availability of the data that led to those results. While there remain good reasons for researchers or institutions to withhold such data, as a condition of future support funders are moving toward this being the exception rather than the rule

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Impact

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