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DRIVER Comments on EC Green Paper "Copyright in the Knowledge Economy"
DRIVER - the Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European
Research - aims to enhance the dissemination of scholarly works by
developing and sustaining a pan-European infrastructure for digital
repositories. DRIVER has established a community of Open Access
repositories including textual research papers and other scholarly
publications.
The European Commission called for comments on its Green Paper on
Copyright in the Knowledge Economy, asking whether the scientific and
research community should enter into licensing schemes with publishers
in order to increase access to works for teaching or research purposes.
Examples of successful licensing schemes were queried, enabling online
use of works for teaching or research purposes.
The call for comments is part of a consultation process. In response,
the DRIVER consortium has set out a number of reasons why the scientific
and research community should aim to increase its influence on the
development and adoption of alternative licensing schemes. Details of
the DRIVER comments are available at
http://www.driver-support.eu/newsevents.php.
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