EUROPEAN COMMISSION LAUNCHES OPEN SOURCE RESEARCH PUBLICATION PILOT PROJECT
September 1st, 2008
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has responded to growing demand in the science community for unfettered access to research by launching a pilot project to make European Union (EU)-funded research in seven key subject areas available free of charge on the Internet.
According to the Commission, the move should help the EU step up its use of the latest scientific developments by ensuring that businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), have access to the latest research results. It should also help the EU's researchers themselves ...
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