<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from Ivo Grigorov. --Peter Suber.]<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font><div class="gmail_quote">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Press Release – 28 Oct 2010 (Plouzané, France)<span></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Greater Access
to Climate Impact Research </font></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The EUR-OCEANS
Consortium of 29 European marine research institutes adopts a mandate to publish
consortium-funded, peer-reviewed climate impact research freely accessible to
society.</font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">This October, the 29 members of the EUR-OCEANS Consortium
voted in favour of adopting an « open access » policy to publishing scientific
research. The EUR-OCEANS Consortium aims to fund top-level science on the impacts
of anthropogenic and natural climate pressures on marine ecosystems, including
the polar environment.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The
favourable vote is announced only two months after the French Institute for Sea
Exploration, Ifremer, introduced the first compulsory mandate in France.
According to the mandate all scientists will deposit their final version
of their peer-reviwed publications in an open repository, which then makes the
research freely accessible in agreement with publishers` copyright.<br>
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Mandates of this type insure that 100% of public-funded research is immediately
and freely accessible to society, compared to just 5-25% without mandates<a href="#12bf358544d325c0__ftn1" name="12bf358544d325c0__ftnref" title=""><span><span>[1]</span></span></a>.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Despite
the fact that most fundamental research is funded by public funds, the public
itself has severely restricted access to the 2,5 million articles that
scientists across all disciplines publish each year<a href="#12bf358544d325c0__ftn2" name="12bf358544d325c0__ftnref" title=""><span><span>[2]</span></span></a>.
Most articles cost anywhere from 9-40 dollars to read by members of the public,
reducing the flow of information. In recent years, even the universities
themselves struggle to pay the high subscriptions to the journals in which
their own scientists contribute.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">This
paradox strengthened the « open access » movement in the 1990s,
specifically with respect to free access to the latest medical research for
doctors and patients.<span> </span>In the age
of global climate change, the ethical and practical need to have access to the
latest research remains. The state of the marine ecosystems and the polar
environment is no longer of interest just to the academics alone.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The
increased free access to the latest research is not just an ethical argument,
however.<span> </span>« Open access »
advocates are producing an increasing body of work suggesting that the public
does seek scientific publications<a href="#12bf358544d325c0__ftn3" name="12bf358544d325c0__ftnref" title=""><span><span>[3]</span></span></a>
and that providing free access to research is beneficial both to progress of
research itself<a href="#12bf358544d325c0__ftn4" name="12bf358544d325c0__ftnref" title=""><span><span>[4]</span></span></a> as well as
applying that knowledge in society.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The
availability of information can also accelerate public debate on critical
regional issues like eutrophication, biodiversity change, aquaculture and
services provided by the marine environment to the local economy.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The
argument for open access has gained new importance in the last two years,
following controversies over the openness and transparency of climate research
and climate data.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The policy proposition to the EUR-OCEANS Consortium was
authored by Catherine Bertignac (Université de Bretagne Occidentale), Dominique
Gac (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique), Ivo Grigorov (CNRS), at
Technopôle, Plouzané, and Alma Swan (Enabling Open Scholarship) based in Great
Britain. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Links:</font></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Policy
proposition to EO Consortium: http:// <a href="http://www.eur-oceans.net/?q=node/22286" target="_blank">www.eur-oceans.net/?q=node/22286</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Outcome of
the EO Council vote: <a href="http://www.eur-oceans.net/?q=node/22348" target="_blank">http://www.eur-oceans.net/?q=node/22348</a></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">EUR-OCEANS
logo - <a href="http://www.eur-oceans.net/sites/default/files/EOC_logo_cmyk_vectorised.eps" target="_blank">http://www.eur-oceans.net/sites/default/files/EOC_logo_cmyk_vectorised.eps</a></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">EUR-OCEANS Consortium
members; </font><a href="http://www.eur-oceans.net/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">www.eur-oceans.net</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Denmark DTU Aqua Denmark National
Institute of Aquatic Resources</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Estonia EMI Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu (invited
member)</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Finland SYKE Finnish Environment Institute</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">France IFREMER Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de
la Mer</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">France INSU-CNRS Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers – Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">France IRD Institut de Recherche pour le Développement</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">France UBO Université de Bretagne Occidentale</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">France UPMC Université Pierre et Marie Curie</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">France UnivMed Université Aix-Marseille 2</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">France CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Germany AWI Alfred Wegener Institut</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">GermanyUniHB Universität Bremen</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Germany UniHH Universität Hamburg</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Greece HCMR Greece Hellenic Center for Marine Research</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Italy CNR Consiglio Nationale delle Ricerche</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Italy CoNISMa Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze
del Mare</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Italy SZN Stazione Zoologica ‘A. Dohrn’ Napoli</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Italy OGS Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica
Sperimentale</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Latvia BIOR Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment
(invited member)</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Morocco INRH<span> </span>Institut
National de la Recherhe Halieutique (invited member)</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Norway NTNU<span> </span>Norwegian
University of Science and Technology</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Norway Un Oslo University of Oslo</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Poland IO PAS Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">South Africa UCT University of Cape Town (invited member)</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Spain AZTI Fundacion AZTI</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Sweden Stockholm Un University of Stockholm</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">UK BAS (NERC) British Antarctic Survey</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">UK NOCS (NERC) National Oceanographic Centre Southampton</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">UK PML Plymouth Marine
Laboratory</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Contacts : </font></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Ivo Grigorov, CNRS : <a href="mailto:ivo_grigorov@hotmail.com" target="_blank">ivo_grigorov@hotmail.com</a></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Alma Swan, Enabling Open Scholarship & Key Perspectives
(UK) : <a href="mailto:info@openscholarship.org" target="_blank">info@openscholarship.org</a></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">EUR-OCEANS Consortium (Séte, France) : <a href="mailto:po@eur-oceans.eu" target="_blank">po@eur-oceans.eu</a> </font></p>
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