What can the Open Data movement learn from Open Access? - ODBMS.org

"Last May the PASTEUR4OA project organised a conference to discuss developments and next steps to strengthen the Open Access movement in the European Union. Open Access (OA) refers to the sharing of academic outputs such as articles without restrictions to the access or use. During the conference, called “Green Light for Open Access: Aligning Europe’s OA Policies”, all stakeholders from the Open Access domain came together in Amsterdam to exchange experiences, best practices and success stories. It also fell together with the recent developments which introduced Open Data and Open Access as part of the (URL) Horizon 2020 research funding. Together, it formed a good incentive for the European Data Portal to explore Open Access and find out how it relates to Open Data"