EU targets open access to FP7-funded research

"Creating and maintaining a strong network for European research cooperation is high on the EU agenda. Helping drive this effort is OPENAIRE ('Open access infrastructure for research in Europe'), a project encouraging and supporting free online access to knowledge generated by researchers with grants from the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and the European Research Council (ERC). The European Commission launched OPENAIRE in Ghent, Belgium, on 2 December. Coordinated by the University of Athens in Greece, OPENAIRE has clinched EUR 4.17 million to build support structures for researchers, set up and run an electronic infrastructure for handling peer-reviewed articles, and cooperate with communities to deposit, access and manage research datasets...."