Open Access News
The EU opens up
- Created on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 14:35
17 juni 2013 - The EU will open up “huge amounts of public data”. EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes sees great benefits, not only is the advantage “in the order of tens of billions of euros”, it also boosts a variety of sectors. “This is a good day for public transparency; a good day for web innovators; and a good day for our economy.”
Member States will have two years to transform this decision on Open Access into national laws. “Once fully implemented, it will boost the data market in Europe by making all the generally accessible public sector information available for re-use. Developers, programmers, creative citizens and businesses will be able to get and re-use public sector data at zero or very low cost. They will also have access to more exciting and inspirational content since materials in national museums, libraries and archives now fall under the scope of the Directive” as the memo by the European Commission states.
G8 Science Ministers support Open Access
- Created on Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:37
G8 Science Ministers met in London on Wednesday 12 June with Presidents of their respective national science academies, as part of the UK’s G8 Presidency. At this unique meeting they discussed how their nations could lead efforts to improve the transparency, coherence and coordination of the global scientific research enterprise in order to address global challenges and maximise the social and economic benefits of research.
They discussed global challenges, global research infrastructure, open scientific research data and expanding access to scientific research results.
Read the full statement
Nominate an OA pioneer for Accelerating Science Award Program
- Created on Thursday, 30 May 2013 09:24
Nominate a Pioneer who has applied scientific research published through Open Access to innovate in
any field and benefit society. Nominate by June 15, 2013. Full details at asap.plos.org.
The Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) recognizes individuals who have used, applied, or
remixed scientific research – published through Open Access – to make a difference in science,
medicine, business, technology, or society as a whole. Potential nominees include individuals, teams or
groups of collaborators such as scientists, researchers, educators, technology leaders, entrepreneurs,
policy makers, patient advocates, public health workers, and students.
Major sponsors include Google, PLOS, and the Wellcome Trust. SURF is one of the sponsors.
World’s research funders launch open-access action plan
- Created on Thursday, 30 May 2013 07:23
Nature reports that the heads of some 70 research funding agencies from around the world said today (29 May 2013) that they had agreed to encourage open access to science publications resulting from their spending.
But the funders, gathering in Berlin for the second annual meeting of the Global Research Council, a voluntary but potentially influential discussion forum, did not commit to joint specifics in their seven-page action plan.
WODC-repository gehost door TU Delft Library
- Created on Tuesday, 28 May 2013 12:37
Het Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum (WODC) van het Ministerie van Veiligheid en Justitie heeft vanaf april 2013 een eigen repository die wordt gehost door TU Delft Library. Dankzij een repository op maat komt TU Delft Library tegemoet aan de wensen van het WODC om haar openbare publicaties beter zichtbaar en toegankelijk te maken. Daarnaast kan deze repository ook geharvest worden door open access aggregators als NARCIS.