Recommendations on Open Science Publishing

"Summary: Five Recommendations

1. Stakeholder communities, member states and the European Commission should

jointly assess and identify how the OA mandate should be achieved by 2020.

2. Progress toward full OA must take into account how fast the publishing system is

changing, and how scholarly communications are growing in richness and variety.

3. One size does not fit all – even if the end goal for all disciplines may be the same.

Issues of compliance, including both incentives and enforcement, should be proposed,

clarified and harmonised in a discipline-sensitive way.

4. Publishing options must be made clear and easily accessible.

5. From 2020, the European Commission must move toward a broader definition of OA

that incorporates the full range of emerging formats and applications of scientific

research output."