[LIS-Forum] OA in Germany

Subbiah Arunachalam arun at mssrf.res.in
Sat Oct 2 11:53:43 IST 2004


Friends:

Here is a new German open access initiative. We should persude funding
agencies in India to adopt such programmes.

Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
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More on eSciDoc 
Bobby Pickering, German Government funds OA initiative
<http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1158510>, Information World Review, October 1,
2004. Excerpt: "The German government has awarded Euro 6.1m (£4.2m) to STM
publisher FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Society (MPS) to develop a
platform for web-based collaborative scientific work and self-publishing.
The five-year eSciDoc project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of
Education and Research (BMBF), will provide another precedent for state
funding of open access initiatives when the UK government responds to the
HoC's Scientific Committee report released in June. MPS is a not-for-profit
research organisation that signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to
Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities last October. The eSciDoc project
will enable scientists in its 80 institutes to collaborate on research and
publish their results on a long-term basis in open archives developed by FIZ
Karlsruhe technology teams." 

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OA in Germany
Friends:
Here is a new German open access initiative. We should persude funding agencies in India to adopt such programmes.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
---------------------------------
More on eSciDoc
Bobby Pickering,
German Government funds OA initiative < http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1158510 http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1158510
>
, Information World Review, October 1, 2004. Excerpt: "The German government has awarded Euro 6.1m (£4.2m) to STM publisher FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Society (MPS) to develop a platform for web-based collaborative scientific work and self-publishing. The five-year eSciDoc project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), will provide another precedent for state funding of open access initiatives when the UK government responds to the HoC's Scientific Committee report released in June. MPS is a not-for-profit research organisation that signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities last October. The eSciDoc project will enable scientists in its 80 institutes to collaborate on research and publish their results on a long-term basis in open archives developed by FIZ Karlsruhe technology teams."


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