Re: EurOpenScholarship: Press Release from the University of Liege

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:09:18 +0100

                ** Cross-Posted **

More on EurOpenScholarship from the Rector of the University of Liege
(Excerpt translated from: http://recteur.blogs.ulg.ac.be/?p=151 )

    "EurOpenScholar will be a showcase and a tool for the promotion
    of OA in Europe. It will be a consortium of European universities
    resolved to move forward on OA and to try to convince the largest
    possible number of researchers, their institutions and their European
    Funding Agencies to engage now in what will undoubtedly be the mode
    of communication of tomorrow. The transitional period will be the
    most difficult. Our goal is to facilitate and thereby accelerate as
    much as possible the transition to the OA era.

    "The EurOpenScholar web site, hosted by the ULg, will provide an
    information-gathering service concerning OA institutional repositories
    and OA journals, with a discussion forum on OA and the methods
    emerging in the field of scientometrics (research performance and
    impact measurement, ranking and anlysis).

    "EurOpenScholar's primary objective will be to open researchers'
    eyes to the new ways of promoting the spread of knowledge and of
    assessing research progress and performance in the OA era. This
    will contribute to the advancement of research in Europe and to the
    promotion of European research and European researchers.

    "In addition, EurOpenScholar will address itself to research managers,
    funding agencies, national and local research policy-makers, the R&D
    industry, the media, and the general public, facilitating synergies
    and technology transfer and providing an effective channel for the
    communication of real science to the public, either directly or
    through the media." [Bernard Rentier, Rector, U. Liege]
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