** Cross Posted **
This is an update on the European Research Council (ERC)
Open Access
Self-Archiving Mandate.
http:
//www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
It was registered this January as a "pledged"
mandate (rather
stronger than a "proposed" mandate) and it will
soon take effect,
so I've upgraded it in ROARMAP to a full funder mandate.
Here is what Professor Jeffrey has written about it (for
posting):
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Jeffery, KG (Keith) wrote:
Here's the base FP7 figures for the duration of the work
programme http://cor
dis.europa.eu/fp7/budget_en.html
>From this you see ERC is 7.5 bn of 50.5bn i.e. almost
15%
The key point here is the leveraging; the EC R&D funding
is ~ 5%
of total R&D funding in Europe and the interactions
between the
EC programme and national programmes are complex - basically
politicians try to lever either negatively (if EC funds this
area
of research or researcher we won't) or positively (if EC
funds
this we'll fund it too).
The ERC is to fund individual researchers, not teams. It
will
thus give great prestige to the successful researchers.
With am
OA self-archiving mandate it will give a leadership to all
Europe
research unachievable otherwise - i.e. it is a totem. If a
(prestigious) researcher with ERC funding does parallel
green
deposit for ERC then she will also do it for her
nationally-funded research - by force of habit if nothing
else!
The research team around will 'get the habit' too.
Significantly this leadership should also be extended to EIT
(European Institute of Technology). This will be ~75%
industry
funded according to the EC and will involve large numbers of
researchers (15-20,000). Of course it is yet to be approved
by
the parliament but Barrosso (EC president) seems determined
to
push it through.
Prof Keith G Jeffery
Director Information Technology
and International Strategy
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
President ERCIM & CCLRC Director: http://www.ercim.org/
W3C Office at CLRC-RAL http://www.w3.org/
President euroCRIS http://www.eurocris.org/
VLDB Trustee Emeritus: http://www.vldb.org/
EDBT Board Member http://www.edbt.org/
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