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Support for immediate access to articles: OpenAIRE and others issue statement
| Administrator
A number of organizations committed to the principle that access to information advances discovery, accelerates innovation and improves education, have now endorsed the policies and practices that enable Open Access - immediate, barrier free access to and reuse of scholarly articles.
Research Data Alliance: Of data, water and lifeboats
| Najla Rettberg
At the Research Data Alliance's fourth plenary in Amsterdam, Christine Borgman (Professor Information Science, UCLA) “Data, data everywhere, but not a drop to drink” reminded us in her excellent key-note of the challenges the RDA audience are facing when managing data. Her focus was more on how the institution can help science teams rather…
OpenAIRE in Open Access week 2014!
October 20 - October 26 is International Open Access Week
OpenAIRE supports and encourages open access via its infrastructure and services and will be actively participating in the 7th International Open Access Week 'Generation Open' with a series of webinars and spotlights on its services and resources. Look at the schedule below to find out…
OAW14: OpenAIRE webinars
OpenAIRE is organising a series of webinars hosted by our own experts on the following topics: the Open Access Mandate and the Open Research Data Pilot in H2020, the new OpenAIRE portal and the Zenodo data repository.
It's OAW2014! Find out more about the EC OA policies.
In Horizon 2020, the European Commission announced that the Open Access Pilot would oblige all H2020 projects to provide Open Access to their scientific peer reviewed publications. Find out how OpenAIRE supports this.
A successful OA week @OpenAIRE
| Najla Rettberg
What did we do during OA Week 2014?
Check it out here:
Open Access Week 2014 by OpenAIRE from OpenAIRE
OpenAIRE2020: A new horizon for open science
The wealth of the European Union's scientific research is to be made open to all. A year after the start of the EC's Horizon 2020 framework programme, OpenAIRE enters a new phase of funding with a continuation project: OpenAIRE2020, starting in January 2015. The initiative will implement the H2020 Open Access policies and mandates for publications…
ERC revises its Open Access Guidelines
The ERC Scientific Council has revised its Open Access Guidelines and strongly promotes good research data management.
Sweden: Open Access for the long-term
The Swedish Research Council has been tasked by the Government to produce national guidelines for open access to scientific information. The proposed guidelines have been presented to the government.
Success Story: Disseminating research via OpenAIRE
| Najla Rettberg
Researchers can find compliance to funding agencies' OA demands a challenge. The Spanish National Research Council, CSIC, has come up with innovative ways of supporting them to deposit articles and make them visible in OpenAIRE.
Not Enough: Elsevier's Sharing Policy not as Open as it seems
| Najla Rettberg
Global coalition of organizations denounce the policy and urge Elsevier to revise the new sharing policy.
OpenAIRE signs statement disagreeing with Elsevier's new sharing policy....
Horizon 2020 Open Access mandate: OpenAIRE webinar
Did you know that if you are receiving Horizon2020 funding you have to make all your publications Open Access? Join our free webinar, led by Inge Van Nieuwerburgh (Ghent University – Belgium), and learn what researchers, project coordinators and research administrators need to know to comply with Horizon 2020 Open Access mandate, and how&nbs…