EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLAN ON DIGITAL ACADEMIC PUBLISHING RAISES CONCERN
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has shied away from forcing all European Union (EU) Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) research grant recipients from publishing in open source formats, but a policy paper says the incoming European Research Council (ERC) may make such demands.In a new 'Communication', Brussels "envisages, within specific programmes (managed by the ERC), to issue specific guidelines on the publication of articles in open repositories after an embargo."It also says FP7 funding will cover "costs related to publishing, including open source ...
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