Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:17:45 +0000 (GMT)
From: Subbiah Arunachalam
Friends:
http://www.ec-petition.eu/
On 17 January 2007 an online petition was launched by
a consortium of publicly-funded organisations in
Europe, viz. DEFF, DFG, JISC, SPARC Europe and SURF.
The petition called for the European Commission to
endorse in full the recommendations in the EU Study on
the Economic & Technical Evolution of the Scientific
Publication markets of Europe. The petition will be
handed over to the European Commissioner for Research,
Mr Jan Potocnik by Dr Sijbolt Noorda of the European
Universities Association, a body that represents 780
universities in Europe, on 15 February 2007.
About 18,500 people (including 749 institutions) have
signed the petition (as on 11 February 2007). These
include nine national academies, eight university
associations (rectorsÂ’ conferences), nine government
departments, six research-based museums, 120
universities and research institutes, 17 research
funders, 43 learned publishing organisations, 91
R&D-based companies, 61 national societies or
foundations, 52 international societies or
foundations, 34 research library organisations, and
183 research libraries.
Many institutions and individuals outside Europe have
also signed the petition to EC in favour of mandating
open access to research papers. Among them is
Professor Atta-ur-Rahman, the well-known organic
chemist and Minister for Science of Pakistan.
Leaders of Indian science, directors and scientists of
national laboratories (CSIR, ICAR, ICMR, DAE, DRDO,
Department of Space, DBT, etc.), vice chancellors,
deans, professors and research scholars of Indian
universities, Presidents and Fellows of Academies, and
librarians would do well to sign the petition. It
takes about a minute . Please visit:
http://www.ec-petition.eu/.
Regards.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
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