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August 21, 2008, 02:37 PM ET
Europe Begins a Pilot Open-Access Project for EU-Financed Research Results
Following in the footsteps of the National Institutes of Health, which now demands researchers who received funding from it to deposit their results in the institutes’ online archive within 12 months of publication, the European Commission has launched a pilot project to provide open access to E.U.-financed research findings.
The project the Commission announced today will give total online access to E.U.-funded research results after an embargo period of between 6 and 12 months. This pilot, which will run until the end of 2008, will cover about 20 percent of the research financed with the 50 billion euro budget of E.U.‘s 7th Research Framework Program.
With this measure, the European Commission wants to make sure that the results of the research it finances “are disseminated as widely and effectively as possible to guarantee maximum exploitation and impact in the world of researchers and beyond,” according to a press release.
More details on the pilot project will be available on September 1 at the project’s website. —Maria José Viñas
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