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Friday, November 21, 2008

French report on national research policy recommends OA

A new but undated report on national research and higher education policies in France (Rapport sur les politiques nationales de recherche et de formations supérieures), an annex to the 2009 finance bill, picks up some OA recommendations from the May 2008 Salençon Report on scientific and technical information (Rapport du comite 1st information scientifique et technique).  It recommends talking with publishers about modifying their contracts and access policies, funding publication in fee-based OA journals, using HAL as the national platform for publicly-funded research, and digitizing French scholarly journals.  (Thanks to the INIST Libre Accès blog and Hélène Bosc.)

The reports are PDFs and I can't link to machine translations.  But here's Google's English translation of the INIST Libre Accès blog post.