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More on EurOpenScholarship from the Rector of the University of Liege
(Excerpt translated from:
http://recteur.blogs.ulg.ac.be/?p=151 )
"EurOpenScholar will be a showcase and a tool for the promotion
of OA in Europe. It will be a consortium of European universities
resolved to move forward on OA and to try to convince the largest
possible number of researchers, their institutions and their European
Funding Agencies to engage now in what will undoubtedly be the mode
of communication of tomorrow. The transitional period will be the
most difficult. Our goal is to facilitate and thereby accelerate as
much as possible the transition to the OA era.
"The EurOpenScholar web site, hosted by the ULg, will provide an
information-gathering service concerning OA institutional repositories
and OA journals, with a discussion forum on OA and the methods
emerging in the field of scientometrics (research performance and
impact measurement, ranking and anlysis).
"EurOpenScholar's primary objective will be to open researchers'
eyes to the new ways of promoting the spread of knowledge and of
assessing research progress and performance in the OA era. This
will contribute to the advancement of research in Europe and to the
promotion of European research and European researchers.
"In addition, EurOpenScholar will address itself to research managers,
funding agencies, national and local research policy-makers, the R&D
industry, the media, and the general public, facilitating synergies
and technology transfer and providing an effective channel for the
communication of real science to the public, either directly or
through the media." [Bernard Rentier, Rector, U. Liege]
Received on Sat Oct 20 2007 - 18:22:07 BST