Philip Rose posted on July 19, 2012 10:30
The goal is for 60% of European publicly-funded research articles to be available under open access by 2016, states a press release issued by the Commission. The aim is to make it easier for researchers to build on the findings of public-funded research and boost Europe's innovation capacity. As a first step, the Commission will make open access to scientific publications a general principle of Horizon 2020, the EU's Research & Innovation funding programme for 2014-2020. As of 2014, all articles produced with funding from Horizon 2020 will have to be accessible:
- articles will either immediately be made accessible online by the publisher ('Gold' open access) - up-front publication costs can be eligible for reimbursement by the European Commission; or
- researchers will make their articles available through an open access repository no later than six months (12 months for articles in the fields of social sciences and humanities) after publication ('Green' open access).
