[LIS-Forum] OA petition to EC receives overwhelming support

Subbiah Arunachalam subbiah_a at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 14 14:01:51 IST 2007


Friends:

Here is a posting by Leslie carr of the Southampton
University (EPrints team and computer science
department) in the American Scientist forum. I thought
members of this list will be interested to read it.

Subbiah Arunachalam

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The European research and academic community has
demonstrated
overwhelming support for the European Commission's
proposed Open
Access Self-Archiving Mandate (A1). A petition,
launched jointly
on January 14th 2007 by research organisations in a
number of
European countries, has drawn over 20,000 signatures
from Europe
and worldwide in support of the EC's proposal. The
response includes
almost 1,000 institutional signatories from National
Academies of
Sciences, Universities, Rectors' conferences, Learned
Societies,
national and private research funding councils, and
industries that
apply research.)

In conjunction with the petition, a separate poll has
been conducted
of the EC Open Access Mandate's specific target
constituency. The
administrators of currently active EU FP6 projects
were asked to
register a vote FOR or AGAINST open access to research
results. The
result was overwhelming: 85.8% in favour of open
access, 14.2%
against (based on a healthy 8.22% response rate from
2652 email
invitations to vote).

Previous research has demonstrated the increased
impact that
Open Access to Research Results offers the research
industry.
The petition and the poll demonstrate that Open Access
now
receives broad-based and popular support as a
mainstream
requirement of the European research industry.
---
Les Carr
University of Southampton
14 February 2007


	
	
		
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