If M. Miradon at N. Miradon nmiradon AT YAHOO.FR is willing to receive and
compile the names, the American Scientist Open Access Forum -- along with a
few Euroscience organizations -- could certainly co-submit it on behalf of
the signatories.
One suggestion: It is (regrettably) true that the conference and theme
in question has been dubbed "Scientific Publishing in the European
Research Area": It should of course have been called "Scientific
Communication in the European Research Area" -- but in our statement,
we need not keep repeating "publishing" unnecessarily, as it is not
publishing reform or even OA publishing that this is all about, but
about providing access to those research publications. Hence it is a
communication issue, not a publishing issue.
Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, N. Miradon wrote:
> On 15 fev 2008 it will be just a year since the European Commission's
> conference on "Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area".
>
> I would like to suggest an Anniversary Letter to the European
> Commissioners
> Mme Reading and M. Potocnik.
>
> The letter should come from one address, but it would be better if there
> were more than one signature. Is there any way which this Forum could host
> such an effort? First draft pasted in below. References [1] - [6] included
> just for completeness - not appropriate in the final letter.
>
> Your corrections and suggestions welcomed
>
> N Miradon
>
>
> DRAFT
>
> Mme Viviane Reding Ph. D.
> Commissioner for Information Society and Media
> European Commission
> B-1049 Bruxelles
> Belgique
>
> M. Janez Potocnik Ph.D.
> Commissioner for Science and Research
> European Commission
> B-1049 Bruxelles
> Belgique
>
> Dear Mme Reding, Dear M. Potocnik,
>
> It is just one year since your conference on "Scientific Publishing in the
> European Research Area - Access, Dissemination, and Preservation in the
> Digital Age". (15-16 February 2007)[1]
>
> We have followed the various developments in scientific publishing since
> that conference. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you and
> your staff for the "Communication on Scientific information in the digital
> age" [2], for the public consultation on the "Study on the economic and
> technical evolution of the scientific publication markets in Europe" [3],
> and for the research projects in this domain which you support, such as
> DRIVER [4].
>
> We note with particular interest that your colleagues in the European
> Research Council have recently decided that all peer-reviewed publications
> from the research projects which they fund should be "deposited on
> publication into an appropriate research repository ... and subsequently
> made Open Access within 6 months of publication."[5]
>
> This seems to us an excellent policy option for scientific publishing
> under
> FP7 and in the European Research Area. It would thus achieve the original
> objectives of last year's conference [6]
>
> We would therefore like to ask you - is there any reason why the same
> requirement should not henceforth be included in all future FP7 grant
> agreements?
>
> Yours sincerely
>
>
>
> [1]
> http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.t
> opic&id=550&lang=1&CFID=11447469&CFTOKEN=880b7960e13fde61-F2A86B39-BB33-83
> 79-69AF32AD03B78623
>
> [2]
> http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/commu
> nication-022007_en.pdf
>
> http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/commu
> nication-022007_fr.pdf
>
> http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/commu
> nication-022007_de.pdf
>
> [3]
> http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.t
> opic&id=360&lang=1&CFID=11447469&CFTOKEN=880b7960e13fde61-F2A86B39-BB33-83
> 79-69AF32AD03B78623
>
> [4] http://www.driver-support.eu/multi/news.php
>
> [5]
> http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/ScC_Guidelines_Open_Access_revised_Dec07_FINAL.pd
> f
>
> [6]
> http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind07&L=american-scientist-open
> -access-forum&D=1&O=D&F=l&S=&P=1813
>
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