EU £64m funding programme 'to back open access'

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-05-17

Summary:

“Further pressure on publishers to fall in line over the use of open access models is set to come from the European Union, which is planning to throw the weight of its £64m research funding program behind open access publishing. The Times Higher Education Supplement reports today (17th May) that an EC official has revealed that for researchers receiving funding from its Horizon 2020 program between 2014-20, a requirement to adopt open access publishing for their work ‘will be the norm.’ A pilot scheme underway in seven areas of its current funding programme is to be extended across all peer-reviewed research in the new scheme. The EC is set to publish an official policy before the summer after consulting with publishers and presenting ideas at an event in Brussels on June 20th this year, according to the THES. The Publishers Association’s academic director Graham Taylor said it was important to point out that at the moment the EC proposals are a work in progress and one in which all the details aren’t clear. He said: ‘Our position is we are already committed to working with 'gold' funding and we expect that to be a recommendation in the Finch group which will report before the Commission does.’ He added: ‘But we know where our red line is. 'Green'  funding, which is dependent on another funding scheme, with a six-month embargo to publication, we cannot agree to, and we are soon to publish some research into the impact of 'green' open access funding...’ The Finch committee report, looking at the funding of publishing academic research, is expected to be released in June.”

Link:

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/eu-%C2%A364m-funding-programme-back-open-access.html

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.comment oa.mandates oa.green oa.societies oa.funding oa.funders oa.embargoes oa.studies oa.publishers_association oa.horizon2020 oa.europe oa.repositories oa.policies oa.journals

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

05/17/2012, 17:40

Date published:

05/17/2012, 18:04