HEFCE and the other Funding Councils announced in 2012 that they would ‘develop proposals for implementing a requirement that research outputs submitted to a REF or similar exercise after 2014 shall be as widely accessible as may be reasonably achievable at the time’. The initial consultation letter is was issued on 25 February, with a deadline for responses on 25 March. It will be followed by a formal consultation on specific proposals later in the year.
Last update: 27 February 2013