PASTEUR4OA/News
Early in November 2014, the University of Messina in Sicily, Italy, held an event on the "Messina Declaration 2.0: the Italian road to Open Access". With the adoption of the Law 112/2013 [1], Italy has recently joined a number of European countries which enjoy national-level Open Access policies besides the institutional ones. This event provided a read more...
The OA mandate of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) is one of the few ROARMAP entries from Hungary. The mandate has been effective since 2013 and is itself quite unusual as MTA is a complex organisation. MTA comprises a network of research centres and institutes and also acts as a research funder, supporting several research groups from various Hungarian Universities. MTA is also a learned society. This mandate is colour-neutral: it read more...
On 2-3 December 2014, the PASTEUR4OA project hosted a Europe-wide meeting of national experts to promote Open Access (OA) policy alignment in Europe.
The meeting brought together PASTEUR4OA project partners and members of the recently set up Knowledge Net that represent a wide variety of stakeholders – universities, research funders, libraries, associations and read more...
Short summary:
At the beginning of 2014 two projects started to support the open access: PASTEUR4OA and FOSTER. The open access offers a lot of benefits to the science but the authors can’t comply the requirements which are others in each country, institution or research fund. The authors would be in a better position against the publishers if the open access policies were similar in each country.
The recommendation of the European Union aren’t enough to achieve the synchronized national open access policies across read more...
National open access (OA) experts are gathering together on the 2 and 3 December 2014 in London, United Kingdom, to promote the development, implementation and alignment of open access policies across Europe.
The Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research (PASTEUR4OA), funded by the read more...
Recent Open Access (OA) policy developments in the United Kingdom (UK) have caused stakeholders such as universities and academic libraries to have to consider how to adapt to distinct funders OA policies and to ensure compliance with those policies. Following an independent study on ‘how to expand access to research publications’, also referred to as the Finch read more...
The English version of the report "Recommendations for the Implementation of Article 37 of the Spanish Science, Technology and Innovation Act: Open Access Dissemination" has just been released by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT). This report, published early October, is the result of the discussions on how to best implement the Open Access mandate included in the read more...
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