Table of contents
Summary of the Open Access Committee’s recommendations
Introduction
- Members of the Open Access Committee
- The Open Access Committee’s assignments
- The Open Access Committee’s approach
The Open Access Committee’s recommendations
- Main area 1: Reinforce national strategies and structures for access to and dissemination of scientific information
- Assignment 1.1: Defining clear policies for dissemination and access to scientific information, including the associated financial planning
- Assignment 1.2: Promoting through these policies, access through the Internet to the results of publicly financed research at no cost to the reader, taking into consideration economically sustainable ways of doing this including delayed Open Access
- Assignment 1.3: Assessing in a systematic way conditions affecting access to scientific information, including – the way in which researchers excercise their copyright to scientific articles, - the level of investments in dissemination of scientific information as compared to the total investments in research, - the use of financial mechanisms to improve the access, such as refunding VAT for digital journal subscriptions to libraries
- Assignment 1.4: Ensuring that repositories of scientific information are sustainable and inter-operable
- Assignment 1.5: Bringing together main stakeholders in the debate on scientific information (researchers, research councils, libraries and scientific publishers)
- Main area 2: Enhance the coordination between the member states on access and dissemination policies and practicies
- Assignment 2.1: Exploring the possibility of national funding bodies to define common basic principles on Open Access
- Assignment 2.2: Improving the transparency of the contractual terms of “big deals”financed with public money – assessing the possibilities to achieve “economies of scale” by demand aggregation
- Assignment 2.3: Working towards the interoperability of national repositories for scientific information in order to furthering accessibility and searchability of scientific information beyond national boundaries
- Assignment 2.4: Contributing to an affective overview of progress at European level by informing the Commission of results and experiences with alternative models for the dissemination of scientific information
- Main area 3: Ensure the long-term preservation of scientific information - including publications and data – and pay due attention to the scientific information in national preservation strategies
- Assignment 3.1: Defining structured approach to long-term preservation of scientific information and incorporating this approach in the national plans for digital preservation established in line with the Commission Recommendation of 24. August 2006 and Council Conclusions of 13. November 2006 on online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation
- Assignment 3.2: Taking into account the specific characteristics of scientific information when setting up the legislative framework (including legal deposit) or practical set-up for digital preservation
Appendix
- Appendix 1: Mandate for the national work with Open Access
- Appendix 2: Council of the European Union’s conclusions on scientific information in the digital age
- Appendix 3: Economy overview and economic calculations
- Appendix 4: Time schedule for implementation
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