June 19, 2012

the Finch report into academic publishing

Speakers:
Bob Campbell, Senior Publisher, Wiley-Blackwell
Professor Adam Tickell, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer, University of Birmingham
Dame Janet Finch, Professor of Sociology, Manchester University

The Finch Report, produced by an independent working group chaired by Dame Janet Finch, tackles the important question of how to achieve better, faster access to research findings for anyone who wants to read or use them.

The group’s remit has been to examine how to expand access to the peer-reviewed publications that arise from research undertaken both in the UK and in the rest of the world, and they came to the SMC to report their findings, while comments from experts in scientific publishing were also sent out.