Open Access : quel avenir pour la publication scientifique ? - Educavox

[From Google's English] "The 5th Open Access Days organized by the Couperin consortium held in the Grand Amphitheatre of the Ecole des Arts et Métiers ParisTech in Paris on Thursday 24 and Friday, January 25, 2013 with the theme: Open Access: what future for scientific publication ? Institutional strategy, the United States and the European Union.   And the central question is asked by the European Commission: How to achieve 100% accessibility to the results of publicly funded research as soon as possible?   The Couperin consortium , which includes more than 200 institutions (Consortium of Unifies Academia and Research for Access to Digital Publications) is given especially as project work to improve scientific communication and promoting the establishment non-commercial systems of Scientific and Technical Information (STI) through the development of appropriate tools and to promote European and international cooperation in the field of documentation and electronic publications.   Couperin collect and analyze documentation needs of its members. It evaluates, negotiates and organizes the purchase of digital information resources for the benefit of those - it. It builds and develops a national network of expertise and exchange for the acquisition and exploitation of electronic resources.   The manifesto Couperin advocates 'information and scientific publishing service research, higher education and democracy.' For this, it is to consolidate institutions of higher education and research to promote a concerted and coordinated policy acquisition and dissemination of scientific and technical information, and to refuse the diktat of some groups world (Scientific edition) referred to monopoly.   While 'digital technologies allow to provide the largest number of scientific information with unrestricted access" and that 'several open access models develop' against these risks, many European governments reflect on practical solutions implement.   The European Commission took position by recommending that member states July 17, 2012 'to define clear policies for dissemination of outcomes of research funded by public funds and free access to recent scientific publications. 'Financed by public funds and free access to them. ' Access to the recommendations of the commission.   Based on this recommendation, it was during these 5 days of food for thought in order to identify areas for a mutually acceptable to ensure its success deliberate policy of Open Access in France ..."