RESEARCH : COMMISSION CONSULTS ON ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION.

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How can scientific articles be made more widely accessible - both to researchers and to society in general? This is one of the questions raised by the European Commission in a public consultation launched on 15 July on access to, and preservation of, digital scientific information.

European researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs must have easy and fast access to scientific information to compete on an equal footing with their counterparts across the world. According to the Commission, digital infrastructures can play a key role in facilitating access. However, the Commission stressed in a communication that "a number of challenges remain". For example: high and rising subscription prices to scientific publications, an ever-growing volume of scientific data, and the need to select, curate and preserve research outputs. Thus, a further two essential questions arise: how research data can be made widely available and how they could be re-used...

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