[GOAL] The Open Access Interviews: Johannes Fournier, speaking for the Global Research Council

[Richard Poynder]

During a two-day inaugural Global Summit on Merit Review held in Washington
last May - which was organised by the US National Science Foundation (NSF)
at the request of the White House Office of Science & Technology (OSTP) - a
new organisation called the Global Research Council (GRC) came into being.

 

The first initiative of the GRC was to publish a Merit Review Statement.
Released at the end of the Washington summit, this outlines a set of
principles for assessing funding applications, including the need to provide
expert assessment, transparency, impartiality, appropriateness, and
confidentiality, as well as integrity and ethical consideration.

 

But for Open Access (OA) advocates, a more interesting outcome of the
Washington summit was the news that the GRC had decided to take up the issue
of OA. As a result, at a second summit - to be held in Berlin at the end of
May - GRC will release consensus statements on both merit review and OA.

 

But what exactly is GRC, how will it be funded, what is its remit, and what
precisely are its aspirations so far as Open Access is concerned?

 

To find out more I conducted an interview with Johannes Fournier, who works
for the German Research Foundation (DFG). 

 

The interview can be read here:
http://poynder.blogspot.fr/2013/03/the-open-access-interviews-johannes.html

 

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