18.295, FYI: Researcher Support for Open Access to Research

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-295. Fri Jan 26 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.295, FYI: Researcher Support for Open Access to Research

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Date: 25-Jan-2007
From: Stevan Harnad < harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk >
Subject: Researcher Support for Open Access to Research 

	
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:09:06
From: Stevan Harnad < harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk >
Subject: Researcher Support for Open Access to Research 
 


Dear Colleagues,

The European Commission, the European Research Advisory Board and the        European Research Councils have recently each recommended adopting        the policy of providing Open Access to research results:
            
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf
            http://ec.europa.eu/research/eurab/pdf/eurab_scipub_report_recomm_dec06_en.pdf

http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/open-access.pdf

(Very similar recommendations are also being made by governmental research organisations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Asia.)

There are non-research interests strongly lobbying against these    recommendations, so a display of support by the research community is        critically important.  A consortium of European organisations working in the scholarly communication arena is now sponsoring a petition to the European Commission to demonstrate support for these recommendations on the part of the European and worldwide research community.

Please visit the site below to learn more, including ways you and your organisation can offer support.

http://www.ec-petition.eu/

The sponsoring organisations are JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee, UK), SURF (Netherlands), SPARC Europe, DFG (Deutsches       Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany), DEFF (Danmarks Elektroniske Fag- og Forskningsbibliotek, Denmark).

Many thanks and best wishes,

Stevan Harnad
Chaire de recherche du Canada
Ctr. de neuroscience de la cognition
Université du Québec à Montréal
Montréal, Québec
Canada  H3C 3P8

Professor of Cognitive Science
Dpt. Electronics & Computer Science
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ United Kingdom
http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ 



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