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There are significant changes taking place in the scholarly communication process and many of these changes are driven by changes in technology. These increasingly mean that research results can be disseminated and used far more easily and quickly than previously possible.

While taking advantage of technical advances is important to all stakeholders, including researchers, academics, publishers and funders alike, there is a need for supporting policies to be developed within a commonly understood framework. The Research Information Network has published a Statement of Principles on ‘Research and the Scholarly Communications Process’ which aims at an agreed public policy framework for the UK to which JISC has lent its support. 

The aim of the statement is to bring together different communities involved in the public policy aspects of the emerging scholarly communications environment in order to secure broad agreement around certain fundamental goals of public policy. ‘An articulation of these goals is important,’ says the statement, ‘to enable Government and other key players to develop a clear policy framework to support effective scholarly information as an essential underpinning of effective high-impact research and knowledge transfer.’

Along with JISC, the British Library, the Research Councils and other organisations in the field, the statement has also been supported or endorsed by key publisher organisations, the Publishers’ Association, the Association of Learned Professional and Society Publishers (ALPSP) and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers. 

Statement of Principles

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