[ciência aberta] All European scientific articles to be freely accessible by 2020

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All European scientific articles to be freely accessible by 2020

News item | 27-05-2016 | 13:57

All scientific articles in Europe must be freely accessible as of 2020. EU
member states want to achieve optimal reuse of research data. They are also
looking into a European visa for foreign start-up founders.

Photo: Tineke Dijkstra

And, according to the new Innovation Principle, new European legislation
must take account of its impact on innovation. These are the main outcomes
of the meeting of the Competitiveness Council in Brussels on 27 May.
Sharing knowledge freely

Under the presidency of Netherlands State Secretary for Education, Culture
and Science Sander Dekker, the EU ministers responsible for research and
innovation decided unanimously to take these significant steps. Mr Dekker
is pleased that these ambitions have been translated into clear agreements
to maximise the impact of research. ‘Research and innovation generate
economic growth and more jobs and provide solutions to societal
challenges,’ the state secretary said. ‘And that means a stronger Europe.
To achieve that, Europe must be as attractive as possible for researchers
and start-ups to locate here and for companies to invest. That calls for
knowledge to be freely shared. The time for talking about open access is
now past. With these agreements, we are going to achieve it in practice.’
Open access

Open access means that scientific publications on the results of research
supported by public and public-private funds must be freely accessible to
everyone. That is not yet the case. The results of publicly funded research
are currently not accessible to people outside universities and knowledge
institutions. As a result, teachers, doctors and entrepreneurs do not have
access to the latest scientific insights that are so relevant to their
work, and universities have to take out expensive subscriptions with
publishers to gain access to publications.
Reusing research data

>From 2020, all scientific publications on the results of publicly funded
research must be freely available. It also must be able to optimally reuse
research data. To achieve that, the data must be made accessible, unless
there are well-founded reasons for not doing so, for example intellectual
property rights or security or privacy issues.
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