If V M Proudman's posting "Portal to bring together Europe^Òs top economics
research" has whetted your appetite, here's some good news.
The Official Journal of the European Union announces (date 7.7.2007 page
C154/13) a Call for Proposals for actions "to make digital content in Europe
more accessible, usable and exploitable". There is a detailed Work Programme
[1]. Pages 12 and 13 of that Work Programme call for Proposals to "Improve
the spread of European research results through conclusive experiments with
open access to digital libraries of scientific/scholarly content". The
result should be that "Digital scientific/scholarly content held by
different types of stakeholders is aggregated and made interoperable and
available for open access across borders" [2].
The European Union would contribute 50% of the cost of the work. Typical EU
contributions for this type of action are between 2 million euro and 5
million euro.
The deadline for receipt of proposals is 4 October 2007 at 17:00 (Luxembourg
local time); so you had better get your skates on.
N.Miradon
[1]
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/calls/proposals/index_en.htm
[2]
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/docs/call_2007/adopted_ecp_2007_wp_for_publication.pdf
Received on Wed Jul 11 2007 - 12:48:00 BST