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Saturday, October 21, 2006

OA infrastructure on European wish list

Daniel Clery, Panel Draws Up Shopping List, Science Magazine, October 20, 2006 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt:

European researchers have compiled a wish list of 35 large-scale projects that they would love to see built over the next 2 decades. The projects...must be internationally important and open to all European researchers....

The road map was put together by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), a meeting place for officials and senior scientists from the European Union and individual nations to work out collaborations on big projects....

[Carlo Rizzuto, head of the Sincrotrone Trieste laboratory
in Italy, who led the road-map working group on physical sciences and engineering] hopes that the road map will help promote the idea of open-access facilities. “This mode of infrastructure has existed since the Middle Ages, but it still needs to be explained to politicians,” he says....

ESFRI members will present the road map next spring at a Paris meeting of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on research infrastructure. Will that meeting result in a world road map? “Wouldn’t that be lovely?” says Wood.

PS:  For more background, see my blog post from October 19.