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<p>This Government supports open access to research publications, following the Finch
Report in 2012, and further advice from Professor Adam Tickell in 2016. It is for
the Research Councils and Funding Councils (and, soon, UK Research and Innovation)
to implement open access within their arrangements for grants and other instruments.
The Research Councils make available block grants to enable universities to make publications
arising from their research open access.</p><p> </p><p>Best practice in this regard
is for research publications to be open access, that is, freely available for all
to read on the internet, and for research data to be “FAIR”. We support the recent
G7 communique that proposes that “research data should adhere to the FAIR principles
of being findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable”. This does not mean that
such data should always be open, as there are circumstances in which that would not
be appropriate, for example where personal confidentiality or national security might
be put at risk. Best practice is shared with other Government departments, primarily
through the work of the Government Office for Science, and the Chief Scientific Advisors
in Government departments across Whitehall.</p><p> </p>
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