E.U. urged to free all scientific papers by 2020 - For Beautiful Life

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-01-11

Summary:

"One of the perks of holding the rotating presidency of the European Union is that it gives a member state a 6-month megaphone to promote its favorite policy ideas. For the Netherlands, which took over the presidency on 1 January, one surprising priority is open access (OA) to the scientific literature. Last week, the Dutch government held a 2-day meeting here in which European policymakers, research funders, librarians, and publishers discussed how to advance OA. The meeting produced an Amsterdam Call to Action that included the ambition to make all new papers published in the European Union freely available by 2020.

Given the slow pace with which OA has gained ground the past 10 years, few believe that’s actually possible, but the document is rallying support. Carlos Moedas, the European commissioner for research, science, and innovation, favors an ambitious approach; OA will also be a key discussion point at a meeting of Europe’s ministers of research, innovation, industry, and trade in Brussels in late May. 'This is an orchestrated push on the European level that we have not seen before,' says Ralf Schimmer of the Max Planck Digital Library in Munich, Germany.

Whether all 28 E.U. states are ready to act remains to be seen, and even some OA advocates are critical of the approach that the Netherlands has adopted for its own scientists: an emphatic choice for Gold OA, in which authors pay publishers to make their papers freely available. Many instead prefer Green OA, in which authors post a copy of each published paper in a public repository."

Link:

http://forbeautifullife.com/e-u-urged-to-free-all-scientific-papers-by-2020/

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Tags:

oa.europe oa.policies oa.journals oa.repositories

Date tagged:

01/11/2017, 00:10

Date published:

01/10/2017, 19:10