There is a saying: 'the mills of government grind slowly' that seems to
be appropriate here
concerning the EU and its procedures. But, I agree, 7 months pending is
too long.
Maybe the officials wait for the outcome of the efforts in Portugal?
With respect to available papers of the ** meeting. The site
http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/ has annual reports
of which the 2007 report is ofcourse not yet available.
Besides, the ** meeting was only a couple of days ago, so understandably
a report of that meeting is not yet available either.
Hillebrand Verkroost
Netherlands.
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Namens N. Miradon
Verzonden: dinsdag 25 september 2007 9:42
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Onderwerp: Conferences in Lisbon
Earlier this year, 26417 people called on the European Commission to
"Guarantee Public Access To Publicly-Funded Research Results Shortly
After Publication" (
http://www.ec-petition.eu/ ).
The Commission replied that "scientific publishing will be a priority on
the agenda of the Portuguese Presidency".
http://tinyurl.com/2mucws or
long url
http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind07&L=american-scientist-op
en-access-forum&D=1&O=A&F=l&P=60880
And indeed Portugal is organising a series of meetings on research and
competitiveness. All take place in Lisbon, before the end of the year
(see list below). Many of these meetings seem likely to touch on the
subject of Public Access To Results Of Publicly Funded Research.
One meeting has already taken place** but I cant find any reports. If
you, dear reader, attend one of these meetings, it would be nice if you
could post a report here.
Or should EU citizens just forget the whole business? It looks as though
our representatives in the European Parliament have done just that.
"Officialisation of procedure in the European Parliament" has been
"pending"
since February 2007;
http://tinyurl.com/388roo or long url
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/FindByDocnum.do?lang=en&docnum=COM/20
07/0056
N. Miradon
Conferences in Lisbon
From
http://tinyurl.com/2sh294 or long url
http://www.bmvit.gv.at/en/presse/aktuell/mai/2007/0709OTS1003.html
**22nd Meeting of the European Strategy Forum on Research
Infrastructures
(ESFRI)
date: 21 September 2007
venue: Lisbon
Lisbon Research and Policy Workshops: Real science, reliable knowledge
and the complementarily of "open science" and property knowledge?
date: 1 - 2 October
venue: Lisbon
High Level Conference The Future of Science and Technology in Europe
date: 8 - 10 October 2007
venue: Lisbon
Special European Conference on Effective knowledge Transfer
date: 3 - 4 December 2007
venue: Lisbon
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