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Open Access to research. Alma Swan Convenor , Enabling Open Scholarship Director, SPARC Europe Director, Key Perspectives Ltd. Open Forum Europe, Brussels, 25 September 2012. Open Access to research. Freely available research literature at the time of publication
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Open Access to research Alma Swan Convenor, Enabling Open Scholarship Director, SPARC Europe Director, Key Perspectives Ltd Open Forum Europe, Brussels, 25 September 2012
Open Access to research • Freely available research literature at the time of publication • Few – preferably no – restrictions on re-use of the text and the data • within it • supporting it
Beneficiaries Academic researchers: access to research articles is a major problem Education community ‘General public’ Industry and commerce (innovative SMEs): 80% have access problems Industry and commerce (not particularly innovative companies, too)
What does this need? Research and technical infrastructure to support knowledge circulation Culture change Policy support Horizon 2020
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