The ‘Finch Report’ and the transition to Open Access: Long term monitoring of progress in the United Kingdom

Аннотация

Progress monitoring requires reliable high-quality indicators on the key features of the changing landscape. In June 2012, the ‘Finch Report’ in Accessibility, Sustainability, Excellence: How to Expand Access to Research Publications called for progress monitoring in order to sustain the confidence of all concerned.1It is essential that the configuration of the indicators, and the methodologies for data collection and analysis, are agreed between representatives of research funding bodies, scholarly publishers, and the research community. For this agreement, a common framework for defining and selecting indicators is required, as well as an understanding of what cannot be measured, whether it is for lack of data or methodological reasons.