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Draft motion in support of OA for the European Parliament Umberto Guidoni (Rapporteur), Draft Report on the European Research Area: New Perspectives, European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, October 22, 2007. Excerpt:
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Update (3/15/08). The draft motion was revised and adopted on January 31, 2008. I even blogged the adopted text with comments at the time --something I didn't realize yesterday when I was only looking at the original version of the language. Thanks to David Prosser, Director of SPARC Europe, for sending me the revised text. But instead of just pointing back to my January post, I'll re-post the adopted language in order to contrast it with the original, above. From the new text (p. 47):
Note how the new draft weakens the original: instead of endorsing open access, it endorses experiments and the importance of respecting IPR. The diluting amendment was proposed (p. 18) by Teresa Riera Madurell, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, and Alejo Vidal-Quadras. |