Feb 4, 2007
Researchers of the World: Unite to Support European Commission Open Access Policy
Posted by Stevan Harnad in category: open access
The European Commission, the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) and the European Research Councils have each recently recommended adopting the policy of providing Open Access to research results.
(Very similar recommendations are also being made by governmental research organisations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Asia.)
There are powerful non-research interests lobbying vigorously against these policy recommendations, so a display of support by the research community is critically important at this time.
A petition in support of the European Commission policy recommendation is now being sponsored by a consortium of European organisations: