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FOI2024/00049: Finch Report and REF Open Access Policy

Some or all of the information requested was not provided because we determined that the cost to do so would exceed the appropriate limit.

Case reference FOI2024/00049

Published 10 April 2024

Request

Request Received: 23 January 2024

Clarification Received: 13 and 16 February 2024

I am hereby submitting a Freedom of Information request to obtain information related to discussions, writings, correspondences and analysis that lead to the Finch Report in 2012 and the subsequent REF mandate in 2014 that mandated articles to be available Open Access to qualify for the ref as well as later texts in all forms discussing these.

Full details of the request and clarifications are provided in the attached document.

Response

Response Sent: 1 March 2024

Full details of this response are provided in the attached document.

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