Mark Thorley - RCUK Open Access Policy

Mark is Head of Science Information and Data Management Co-ordinator for the UKs Natural Environment Research Council - NERC. He is responsible for activities relating to scientific data and information management, including the management of the NERC Research Library Service, and for co-ordinating the activities of NERCs network of environmental data centres. He is also chair of Research Councils UK Research Outputs Network, which leads for RCUK on issues relating to scholarly communications and open access.Mark will talk about the new RCUK Open Access policy which will come into effect from 1st April 2013.