European Commission: Open Access Report 2010-2011
On 9 January 2012 the European Commission submitted a report on "National open access and preservation policies in Europe: Analysis of a questionnaire to the European Research Area Comittee".
The reports compares and reports about policies and activities in several EU member states, the questionnaire has also been answered by Montenegro, so you can find this information there as well!
In the annex (page 56 and following), useful links also to pages containing information on national policies on the issue can be found.
As highlighted by Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn in the Foreword, this report gives an overview of how open access is developing in the European Research Area. It is based on a survey conducted via the European Research Area Committee. It shows that open access is backed by a growing number of universities, research centres and funding agencies across Europe, and it highlights the dynamic growth of open access. It also underlines, however, that national initiatives and practices are still fragmented, thus preventing the European Union from realising its full research and innovation potential.
The report includes the following topics (content):
1. ACCESS AND DISSEMINATION 13
1.1 Implementation of the 2007 Council Conclusions 15
1.2 General policies and strategies 15
1.2.1 National level 16
1.2.2 Regional level 17
1.3 Open access to publicly-funded publications 17
1.3.1 Laws and legal provisions 18
1.3.2 Funding bodies 18
1.3.3 Universities and research centres 19
1.3.4 Incentives 20
1.3.5 Specific references to open access in grant agreements 22
1.4 Open access to other publicly-funded research results 22
1.4.1 Research data 23
1.4.2 Theses 24
1.5 Repositories of scientific information 25
1.5.1 Policies regarding repositories 25
1.5.2 Operability and interoperability 25
1.5.3 Repository funding 26
1.5.4 Repository quality 27
1.5.5 Collaborations among repositories 27
1.6 Specificities of research results 28
1.6.1 Copyright 29
1.6.2 VAT 30
1.6.3 Funding, agreements with publishers 31
1.6.4 Investments in dissemination 33
1.6.5 Measures of open access 34
2. LONG TERM PRESERVATION 37
2.1 Implementation of the 2006 Commission Recommendation & Council Conclusions on
the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation 39
2.2 Preservation of research results
3. CO-OPERATION AND CO-ORDINATION 43
3.1 National level 45
3.2 International level 46
3.3 Multi-national 47
4. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND THE EUROPEAN UNION 49
ANNEXES 55
Country information 56
Questionnaire 64
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European Commission: Open Access Report 2010-2011 (pdf, 2.04Mb)
Entry created by Elke Dall on January 12, 2012
Modified on January 12, 2012
