EU PUSHES OPEN ACCESS ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
March 1st, 2013
THE EUROPEAN Commission, the European Union executive, has shown great enthusiasm for open access academic publishing, largely driven by its conviction that the free circulation of scientific research could generate extraordinary gains in economic activity. A favourite and much-quoted statistic in Brussels is that every dollar invested by the US government in the Human Genome Project in 2003 has generated more than USD140 million of economic activity. Fleshing out these ideas last year, the Commission served notice that from 2014 all articles produced with ...
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