EUR-Lex - 32018H0790 - COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION on access to and preservation of scientific information

"The communication ‘A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe’ (3) highlights the importance of data dissemination as a catalyst for economic growth, innovation and digitisation across all economic sectors, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (and start-ups) and for society as a whole. It recognises that big data and high-performance computing are changing the way research is performed and knowledge is shared, as part of a transition towards a more efficient and responsive open science (4). It announces that the Commission would encourage access to public data to help drive innovation and work towards a research open science cloud as part of the European Cloud Initiative. In its mid-term review of the Digital Single Market Strategy (5), the Commission announces its intention to further improve the ‘accessibility and re-use of public and publicly funded data’."