[Oa-italia] Fwd: Results of the EC public consultation on scientific information in the digital age
Maria Cassella
maria.cassella a unito.it
Lun 30 Gen 2012 13:56:29 CET
giro alla lista perche' di estremo interesse i risultati di questa
indagine promossa dalla Commissione europea.
saluti a tutti
MC
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Oggetto: Results of the EC public consultation on scientific
information in the digital age
Data: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:39:18 +0100
Mittente: <RTD-OPEN-ACCESS a ec.europa.eu>
Dear Sir, dear Madam,
The public consultation on scientific information in the digital age,
which was recently undertaken by the European Commission, spurred great
interest among a variety of stakeholders, with 1140 responses received
from 42 countries. Respondents identified *a strong need for better
access to scientific publications and scientific data in Europe*. *90 %
of respondents supported the idea that publications resulting from
publicly funded research should as a matter of principle be in open
access (OA) mode and that data from publicly funded research should be
available for reuse free of charge on the internet.* Furthermore, 83 %
called for policy formulation at the EU level and 86 % agreed on the
development of an EU network of repositories.
Asked about *barriers to accessing scientific publications* the high
price of journals/subscriptions (89%) and the limited budget of
libraries (85 %) were identified as key issues. The main barriers to
access *research data* were identified as lack of funding to develop and
maintain the necessary infrastructures (80 %); the insufficient credit
given to researchers for making research data available (80 %);
insufficient national/regional strategies/policies (79 %) as well as the
lack of incentives for researchers (76.4%).
Self-archiving ('green OA') or a combination of self-archiving and OA
publishing ('gold OA') were identified as the preferred ways for
increasing the number and share of scientific publications available in
OA mode. The majority (56% of respondents) prefer an embargo period
(that is the period of time during which a publication is not yet open
access) of 6 months.
Finally respondents were also concerned that the preservation of
scientific information is currently insufficiently addressed.
*More information:*
The survey on scientific information in the digital age is available at
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/survey-on-scientific-information-digital-age_en.pdf
(pdf document, 6MB)
and on our open access website under "background documents"
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.topic&id=1294&lang=1
<http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.topic&id=1294&lang=1>
For any questions feel free to contact the open access team at
RTD-open-access a ec.europa.eu <mailto:RTD-open-access a ec.europa.eu>
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