Colleagues,
Following from the report from the "EU Study on the Economic and Technical
Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets of Europe" a consortium of
organisations (see below for list) working in the scholarly communication arena
is sponsoring a petition to the European Commission to demonstrate support for
Open Access and for the recommendations in the report.
Signatures may be added on behalf of individuals or institutions.
Please register your support for Open Access. To sign the petition, go to
http://www.ec-petition.eu/
This note is forwarded at the request of Dr Alma Swan who is working on behalf
of the organisations listed below.
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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).
Regards,
John Smith,
The Templeman Library,
University of Kent.
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