European Union requires Open Access | Open Science
abernard102@gmail.com 2013-04-01
Summary:
" ... An example of top-down policy is the latest statement about publishing results of scientific research, coming from the very center of the European Union and expressed by Neelie Kroes, the commissioner responsible for Europe’s digital agenda. According to Neelie Kroes, EU will require to publish all new scientific research for free online. Of course, this policy is applying only to the research conducted by courtesy of the EU funding. Publishing research in OA will help small businesses and will lead to more innovative products ... Ms. Kroes is also a co-author of the global Research Data Alliance – a project launched in cooperation with The Australian Commonwealth Government through the Australian National Data Service supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program, the Education Investment Fund (EIF) Super Science Initiative and The United States of America through the RDA/US activity funded by the National Science Foundation. The aim for Research Data Alliance is to 'accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange, use and re-use, standards harmonization, and discoverability. This will be achieved through the development and adoption of infrastructure, policy, practice, standards, and other deliverables.' The question now is how EU policy will go about the requirement for openness? ..."