Academies call for EU-wide rules on sharing publications - Research Professional News
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Summary:
"A group of European learned academies has urged the European Commission to bring in EU-wide rules enabling researchers to share publications reporting publicly funded research.
The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (Allea) published a statement on 21 October expressing strong support for secondary publication rights—a legal mechanism allowing researchers to share their research outputs with minimal or no constraints.
Bernt Hugenholtz, a legal scholar at the University of Amsterdam and principal author of the statement, said: “Now that several EU countries have introduced [SPR] in their national laws, it is important to harmonise them at the EU level, so the rules are the same across Europe.”
SPRs now exist in six EU countries after first being introduced in Germany in 2014, Allea said. But inconsistent rules between countries are limiting their effectiveness, it said...."