Don’t let Europe’s open-science dream drift : Nature News & Comment

"The European Commission has its critics, but no one can doubt it has ambitious plans. For example, by the year 2020, the commission says, all European researchers will be able to log in to an enormous virtual repository that will eventually provide access to the collective data from all publicly funded research. This European Open Science Cloud would be a safe, cheap and reliable way to store and access data, and getting to it would be as easy as signing into a Netflix account. It would also be a massive boon — encouraging interdisciplinary research and data reuse, reducing duplication and promoting reproducibility. Sounds more like a dream than a plan? Some scientists think so. Few even know the project exists. "