Earlier this year, 26417 people called on the European Commission to
"Guarantee Public Access To Publicly-Funded Research Results Shortly After
Publication" (
http://www.ec-petition.eu/ ).
The Commission replied that "scientific publishing will be a priority on the
agenda of the Portuguese Presidency".
http://tinyurl.com/2mucws or long url
http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind07&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&D=1&O=A&F=l&P=60880
And indeed Portugal is organising a series of meetings on research and
competitiveness. All take place in Lisbon, before the end of the year (see
list below). Many of these meetings seem likely to touch on the subject of
Public Access To Results Of Publicly Funded Research.
One meeting has already taken place** but I cant find any reports. If you,
dear reader, attend one of these meetings, it would be nice if you could
post a report here.
Or should EU citizens just forget the whole business? It looks as though our
representatives in the European Parliament have done just that.
"Officialisation of procedure in the European Parliament" has been "pending"
since February 2007;
http://tinyurl.com/388roo or long url
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/FindByDocnum.do?lang=en&docnum=COM/2007/0056
N. Miradon
Conferences in Lisbon
From
http://tinyurl.com/2sh294 or long url
http://www.bmvit.gv.at/en/presse/aktuell/mai/2007/0709OTS1003.html
**22nd Meeting of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures
(ESFRI)
date: 21 September 2007
venue: Lisbon
Lisbon Research and Policy Workshops: Real science, reliable knowledge and
the complementarily of "open science" and property knowledge?
date: 1 - 2 October
venue: Lisbon
High Level Conference The Future of Science and Technology in Europe
date: 8 - 10 October 2007
venue: Lisbon
Special European Conference on Effective knowledge Transfer
date: 3 - 4 December 2007
venue: Lisbon
Received on Tue Sep 25 2007 - 12:14:13 BST