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Your views on open access publishing are needed!
The SOAP Project (*), funded by the European Commission, would like to
announce the release of an online survey to assess researchers'
experiences with open access publishing. This survey aims to inform the
most comprehensive analysis of attitudes to open access publishing to
date and is seeking views from a wide a range of interested parties. It
is primarily aimed at active researchers in public and private
organizations, from all fields of the research in the sciences and
humanities and focuses on publication of research articles in (open
access) peer-reviewed journals.
If you would like to contribute to shaping the public discourse on open
access, please visit
http://surveymonkey.com/soap_survey_d. It should
take 10-15 minutes to complete.
The survey outcome will be made public and the resulting insights as
well as recommendations will be openly shared with the European
Commission, publishers, research funding agencies, libraries and
researchers.
Thanks in advance,
the SOAP Project Team
info_at_project-soap.eu
(*) Note: The SOAP consortium is coordinated by CERN, the European
Organization for Nuclear Research. It represents key stakeholders in
open access, such as publishers BioMed Central, SAGE and Springer;
funding agencies (the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council) and
libraries (the Max Planck Digital Library of the Max Planck Society).
The project runs for two years, from March 2009 to February 2011.
Join the new online community for researchers at
http://www.methodspace.com
Received on Wed May 19 2010 - 15:07:23 BST