The first Secretary-General of the new European Research Council (ERC) will be Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, the current President of Germany's Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). For more details, see Gretchen Vogel's story in yesterday's issue of Science.
Comments.
This is very good news for those of us hoping that the ERC will mandate OA for ERC-funded research. (The ERC will fund €1 billion worth of research every year.) It's good news because under Winnacker's leadership, the DFG adopted a strong OA policy for DFG-funded research.
The ERC has no web site yet. But I'll blog the URL as soon as I learn it.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/31/2006 02:25:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
