Le Conseil de l'UE a adopté hier et aujourd'hui une série de conclusions sur l'information scientifique à l'ère numérique (accès, diffusion, conservation). Le communiqué de presse est ici.

Quelques extraits (déjà connus, par ailleurs):

"universities, libraries, research performing and research funding organisations, scientific publishers and other stakeholders have in recent years made considerable investments in information technologies for online accessibility;"

"[...] over the past years scientific libraries' capacity to provide researchers with access to a wide range of publications has been affected by rising overall prices of scientific journals (including electronic distribution of publications);"

D'où...

"the strategic importance for Europe’s scientific development of current initiatives to develop sustainable models for open access to scientific information."

"the need to ensure rapid and wide access to publicly funded research results;"

"the importance of scientific output resulting from publicly funded research being available on the Internet at no cost to the reader under economically viable circumstances, including delayed open access;"

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