ESF's EMRC calls for the adoption of open access in biomedical sciences | Science Codex

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-10-25

Summary:

"The European Science Foundation's (ESF) membership organisation for all medical research councils in Europe, the European Medical Research Concils (EMRC) has today released an ESF-EMRC Science Policy Briefing (SPB) entitled 'Open Access in Biomedical Research' highlighting the need to accelerate the adoption of open access to research articles in the biomedical sciences across Europe. Over the past few months, various reports and communications have been published on the topic of open access. These include the Finch Group report on 18 June 2012, the Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) final report on 19 June 2012, the European Research Council (ERC) announcement of its new open access policy on 13 July 2012, and the European Commission's launch of a communication and recommendations to Member States 'Towards better access to scientific information' on 17 July 2012.  The ESF-EMRC Science Policy Briefing entitled 'Open Access in Biomedical Research' was instigated to examine whether there are new opportunities for open access in biomedical research within Europe that will benefit European biomedical researchers and European society as a whole. The report provides three key recommendations for the adoption of open access policy:  1. There is a moral imperative for open access... 2. Individual agencies must work together to raise awareness of the moral imperative for open access... 3. All research stakeholders should work together in order to support the extension of Europe PubMed Central into a Europe-wide PubMed Central..."

Link:

http://www.sciencecodex.com/esfs_emrc_calls_for_the_adoption_of_open_access_in_biomedical_sciences-100604

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oa.medicine oa.biology oa.new oa.pubmed oa.comment oa.mandates oa.green oa.advocacy oa.europe oa.uk oa.reports oa.biomedicine oa.finch_report oa.esf oa.peer_project oa.emrc oa.repositories oa.policies

Date tagged:

10/25/2012, 07:58

Date published:

10/25/2012, 03:58