EU-Forschungskommissar Carlos Moedas zu Open Access: Lasst uns teilen!

From Google's English: "Open Access is intended to promote free access to scientific publications. Does it unintentionally promote the publishing monopolies? No, says EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas....

This is not about the Chinese or Americans who do not get the research we finance. It's about our young aspiring researchers and researchers coming from less well-resourced institutions. It's about our innovators and start-ups who are denied access. And maybe ironically, the people themselves who fund the research: European taxpayers! All of this at a time when we need more than ever facts backed by reliable scientific evidence. The pursuit of open access is certainly not an attack on the scientific freedom of researchers. We neither tell the scientists what they are publishing, nor do we restrict them to publishing their ideas and results. On the contrary, we only make sure that their results are publicly shared...."