[wos] Join PLoS and Sign the EC Petition

[Volker Grassmuck]

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Date sent:      	Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:52:17 -0800
From:           	Mark Patterson <bounces at lists.plos.org>


Dear PLoS Letter Signers,  

We are writing to you because you signed the PLoS open letter some 
years ago urging scientific publishers to allow the research reports 
that have appeared in their journals to be distributed freely by 
independent, online public libraries of science. As you supported 
that initiative we are now asking you to support a further one that 
will encourage the European Commission to take action that will 
secure vastly increased access to publicly-funded science output. 
Professor Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and co-originator of the PLoS 
open letter, has already put his name to the petition and we 
encourage you to follow his lead.  

In the wake of the publication of the report from the "EU Study on 
the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication 
Markets of Europe" a consortium of organisations working in the 
scholarly communication arena is sponsoring a petition to the 
European Commission to demonstrate support for Open Access and for 
the recommendations in the report.   

Signatures may be added on behalf of individuals or institutions. 

Please register your support for Open Access in this way. To sign the 
petition, please go to http://www.ec-petition.eu/  

The sponsoring organisations are JISC (Joint Information Systems 
Committee, UK), SURF (Netherlands), SPARC Europe, DFG (Deutsches 
Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany), DEFF (Danmarks Elektroniske Fag- og 
Forskningsbibliotek, Denmark).  

Warm regards, 

Mark Patterson
Director of Publishing

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