[A2k] European Commission petitioned to open access to research

[Manon Ress]

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Thanks to Dave Banisar for pointer:
Subject: INFO - European Commission petitioned to open access to
research

http://blog.iwr.co.uk/2007/01/european_commis.html

European Commission petitioned to open access to research
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), a publicly funded
body which negotiates and secures access to electronic information
for the UK's academia, has joined forces with Knowledge Exchange and
SPARC Europe to lobby for new policy on access to scientific
information.

A petition from the three organisations, which work closely with
publishers and librarians in academia, is calling for open access to
research that has EC related funding to be made available online soon
after publication.

The petition is also calling on the European Commission to set out
European wide policy on the development on digital repositories for
scientific information. A central part of the petition is calling for
the recommendations of the Study on the Economic and Technical
Evolution of the Scientific Publications Markets of Europe to be
implemented. The report came out a year ago in January 2006.
"Over the past three years there has been significant progress in
improving access to publicly funded research," said Rachel Bruce,
JISC Director of Information Environment. "This progress will be
strengthened by the implementation of the recommendations of the
Commission's study."
Information professionals, researchers and members of the information
industry are being called upon to sign the petition, which can be
done so from this link.