OA in Europe suffers a setback

From: N. Miradon <nmiradon_at_YAHOO.FR>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:10:38 -0500

In February 2007 the European Commission, reacting to pressure, published a
document (COM(2007)0056) "Communication on Scientific Information in the
Digital Age: Access, Dissemination and Preservation"; links at [1]. The
Commission sent Communication COM(2007)0056 to the European Council and to
the European Parliament.

The European Council, reacting to pressure, debated the subject and in
November 2007 it published "Council Conclusions on Scientific Information in
the Digital Age: Access, Dissemination and Preservation" [2].

The European Parliament's Research Committee listened to a presentation by
the Commission on "Communication on Scientific Information in the Digital
Age: Access, Dissemination and Preservation". This was the final item on the
agenda of their meeting on 13 September 2007 [3]. The Committee decided to
take no action, and COM(2007)0056 has been wiped from the Parliament's
database [4].

It looks as though only two members of this list bothered to contact their
Member of the European Parliament [5]. And because pressure was negligible,
the European Parliament did nothing.

Thus are battles lost.

N. Miradon

Tiny urls
[1] http://tinyurl.com/35hy47
[2] http://tinyurl.com/2oqpg8
[3] http://tinyurl.com/38csg2
[4] http://tinyurl.com/388roo
    Link now dead but (2007-11-27 08:39 CET) cached in Google.
[5] http://tinyurl.com/38u66g

Full urls
[1]
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.topic&id=550&lang=1&CFID=10339859&CFTOKEN=d490db0efb3532c-56AE4907-F25F-1A84-DBD360CF8EFB3290
[2]
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/intm/97236.pdf
[3]
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/oj/678/678188/678188en.pdf
[4]
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/FindByDocnum.do?lang=en&docnum=COM/2007/0056
    Link now dead but (2007-11-27 08:39 CET) cached in Google.
[5]
http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind07&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&D=1&O=D&F=l&S=&P=46402
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