[LINK] Petition on Open Access to European Research

[Tom Worthington]

I signed this petition on behalf of the ACS:

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Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results
http://www.ec-petition.eu/index.php?p=index

This petition is directed to the European Commission. Its goal is to 
endorse the recommendations made in the Study on the Economic and 
Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets of Europe 
in full, in particular to adopt the first recommendation A1 
http://www.ec-petition.eu/index.php?p=index as a matter of urgency.

"I urge decision-makers at all levels in Europe to endorse the 
recommendations made in the Study on the Economic and Technical 
Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets of Europe in full, in 
particular to adopt the first recommendation A1 
<http://www.ec-petition.eu/index.php?p=index> as a matter of urgency.

Name:   Tom Worthington FACS HLM
Position:       Chair of the Scholarly Publishing Committee
Country:        Australia
Organisation/affiliation: Australian Computer Society <http://dl.acs.org.au/>
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"Recommendation A1. Guarantee Public Access To Publicly-funded 
Research Results Shortly After Publication

Research funding agencies have a central role in determining 
researchers' publishing practices. Following the lead of the NIH and 
other institutions, they should promote and support the archiving of 
publications in open repositories, after a (possibly domain-specific) 
time period to be discussed with publishers. This archiving could 
become a condition for funding. The following actions could be taken 
at the European level: (i) Establish a European policy mandating 
published articles arising from EC-funded research to be available 
after a given time period in open access archives, and (ii) Explore 
with Member States and with European research and academic 
associations whether and how such policies and open repositories 
could be implemented."

From: Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific 
Publication Markets of Europe, European Commission, 
Directorate-General for Research, January 2006, 
<http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf>



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