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Yes, the EC can and should collect the final refereed draft of all EC funded
research. It remains only to specify how that should be done:
It should be a part of the fulfillment condition on the recipient of all EC
research funding -- both the funded researchers and their institutions --
that all refereed research publications resulting from the funding must be
self-archived in the fundee's institutional repository. They (or their
metadata) can then be harvested/collected/imported/exported to the EC from
the IRs:
How To Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/369-guid.html
Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates: What? Where? When? Why? How?
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html
Swan, A., Needham, P., Probets, S., Muir, A., Oppenheim, C., O?Brien, A.,
Hardy, R. and Rowland, F. (2005) Delivery, Management and Access Model for
E-prints and Open Access Journals within Further and Higher Education. JISC
Technical report.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11001/
Swan, A., Needham, P., Probets, S., Muir, A., Oppenheim, C., O?Brien, A.,
Hardy, R., Rowland, F. and Brown, S. (2005) Developing a model for e-prints
and open access journal content in UK further and higher education. Learned
Publishing, 18 (1). pp. 25-40.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11000/
Stevan Harnad
On 27-Apr-08, at 1:54 PM, N. Miradon wrote:
> A kind correspondent has drawn to my attention the European Union's Court
> Of
> Auditors' Special Report No 9/2007 "Evaluating the EU Research and
> Technological Development (RTD) framework programmes ? could the
> Commission?s approach be improved?" published 30 January 2008 (Official
> Journal of the European Union C 2008/26/01; 38 pages).
>
> I dont think that this Report has been discussed here previously. The
> details are rather above my head, but if you are interested in Activity
> Based Budgeting, Evaluation Of Research, Evaluation Strategies,
> Intervention
> Logic, Objective Setting, Performance Indicators, ... , you might well
> find
> it useful to download the original [1].
>
> And if you are interested in Open Access, see in particular paras 72-79
> (pages 14-15), where the Court criticises the Commission. It seems that
> the
> Commission was unable to give the Court of Auditors a citation analysis,
> or
> even a list of publications, for the research that it has funded.
>
> In reply to this criticism the Commission promises a new IT system (paras
> 72-74, page 36).
>
> As readers will remember [2], the Commission is already collecting "... an
> electronic copy of the published version or the final manuscript" of every
> publication (FP7 Grant Agreement - Annex II General Conditions - Version
> 20.12.06 ISC clean 3) [3].
>
> My correspondent suggests that the new IT system should simply take this
> Repository of All FP7 Publications, and make it OAI-compliant, and
> harvestable.
>
> Then when the Commission's performance in FP7 is evaluated, instead of
> being
> criticised by the Court of Auditors, the Commission might even find itself
> being congratulated.
>
> N Miradon
>
> [1] http://eca.europa.eu/portal/pls/portal/docs/1/651520.PDF
> [2]
> http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind07&L=american-scientist-open
> -access-forum&D=1&F=l&O=D&P=46265
> [3]
> ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/fp7/docs/annex2_general_conditions_20061222_en.pdf
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