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Subject: European Commission and Open Access
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:52:24 -0000
From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: American Scientist Open Access Forum
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In the wake of the publication of the report from the "EU Study on the
Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets
of Europe" a consortium of organisations 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 in this way. To sign the
petition, please go to <http://www.ec-petition.eu/>
http://www.ec-petition.eu/
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The sponsoring organisations are JISC (Joint Information Systems
Committee, UK), SURF (Netherlands), SPARC Europe, DFG (Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany), DEFF (Danmarks Elektroniske Fag- og
Forskningsbibliotek, Denmark).
David C Prosser PhD
Director
SPARC Europe
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 277 614
Mobile: +44 (0) 7974 673 888
http://www.sparceurope.org <http://www.sparceurope.org/>
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Dr. Katja Mruck
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Center fuer Digitale Systeme (CeDiS)
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