[GOAL] Helmholtz Association supports COPE

[Paul Schultze-Motel]

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***

To facilitate straightforward funding of scientific publications in 
open-access journals, the Helmholtz Association, Germany's largest 
scientific research organisation, is now supporting the Compact for 
Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE) http://www.oacompact.org.

The research centres of the Helmholtz Association have declared their 
support of COPE and their willingness to establish sustainable 
mechanisms for the payment of reasonable open-access publishing fees. It 
is of primary concern to the Helmholtz Association that publishing in 
open-access journals will be as easy for its scientists as in journals 
with conventional financing.

The international initiative COPE has been started by Harvard 
University, the MIT and other leading US universities to advance 
open-access publishing. In October 2011, the Karlsruhe Institute of 
Technology (KIT) has been the first research institution in Germany to 
sign COPE.

For further information see the press release:
http://tinyurl.com/d3ff2r5


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Dr. Paul Schultze-Motel
Helmholtz Open Access Projekt - Koordinationsbüro
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam
Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
Bibliothek des Wissenschaftsparks Albert Einstein
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam
Tel. (0331) 288-1653
Fax  (0331) 288-1914
E-Mail schultze-motel at gfz-potsdam.de
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Helmholtz Open Access Projekt: http://oa.helmholtz.de