On 11 April 2008 the European Commission announced "the names of 22
personalities who will make up the European Research Area Board (ERAB).
These persons ... will provide independent and authoritative advice to the
European Commission on European research and science policy..." [1]
Let us wish them well. And may the Commission take their advice more
seriously than it took the advice of their predecessors - e.g. the European
Research Advisory Board's Final Report "Scientific Publication: Policy On
Open Access" pub December 2006 [2], which has still not been implemented.
N Miradon
[1]
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/565&format=HTML
[2]
http://ec.europa.eu/research/eurab/pdf/eurab_scipub_report_recomm_dec06_en.pdf
("Recommendation #4. EURAB recommends that the Commission should consider
mandating all researchers funded under FP7 to lodge their publications
resulting from EC-funded research in an open access repository as soon as
possible after publication, to be made openly accessible within 6 months at
the latest.")
Received on Tue Apr 22 2008 - 11:51:28 BST