Researcher Support for Open Access to ResearchThe European Commission, the European Research Advisory Board and the European Research Councils have recently each recommended adopting the policy of providing Open Access to research results:
(Very similar recommendations are also being made by governmental research organisations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Asia.) There are non-research interests strongly lobbying against these recommendations, so a display of support by the research community is critically important. A consortium of European organisations working in the scholarly communication arena is now sponsoring a petition to the European Commission to demonstrate support for these recommendations on the part of the European and worldwide research community. Signatures may be added by individual researchers or universities and research institutions. I would strongly urge you to register your support. To sign the petition, please go to: http://www.ec-petition.eu/ The sponsoring organisations are JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee, UK), SURF (Netherlands), SPARC Europe, DFG (Deutsches Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany), DEFF (Danmarks Elektroniske Fag- og Forskningsbibliotek, Denmark). |
Recent Items... that relate directly to EURONEU funding of the current EURON network ended in April 2008. Unfortunately, the ending of EU funding also meant the ending of paid secretarial and technical support. We apologise to anyone who is affected and for the current slow response times noticable in this website. We aim to have the new system fully functional as soon as possible. CONGRATULATIONS to Herman and John and the new EURON Board following their success in our big vote. Thanks to all who voted. Note that EURON II stopped accepting new members on Jan 20th. EURON III hopes to start accepting new members soon. The server migration on 19th Dec went well, we hope that people were not too inconvenienced. Congratulations to Martin Hägele of Fraunhofer IPA (Stuttgart)! He was awarded the Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award in a ceremony in Chicago on June 13th. The Engelberger Robotics Award is a prestigious robotics honour and recognizes outstanding individuals who have contributed to the advancement of the science of robotics and in the service of mankind. Press Articles... that talk about EURON
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