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[Stevan Harnad <amsciforum@gmail.com>]

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Professor Bernard Rentier, Rector of the University of Liege, in
collaboration with Dr. Alma Swan of Key Perspectives and
University of Southampton, has just launched EOS (Enabling Open
Scholarship):

What is Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS)?
http://www.openscholarship.org/

Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) is a membership organisation for
universities and research institutions. The organisation is a
forum for raising and discussing issues around the mission of
modern universities, particularly with regard to the creation,
dissemination and preservation of research findings.

The context for the establishment of the EOS forum has been:

* the findings of the "Study on the Economic and Technical
   Evolution of Scientific Publications Markets in Europe.'
   (European Commission, DG Research, project report, January
   2006) http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/j_6/home

* the subsequent major conference in Brussels in February 2007
   held jointly by the European Commission's DG Research and DG
   Information and Media, "Scientific Publishing in the Digital
   Age," http://bit.ly/101yNF

* the outstanding success of the research community's petition on
   Open Access to Scientific Information to the European
   Commissioner for Research (summary of petition and its
   presentation) http://www.ec-petition.eu/

* the recommendations on Open Access of the European Research
   Advisory Board (EURAB) http://bit.ly/hBQ1D

* the mandatory policy on Open Access to research it funds under
   the Seventh Framework Programme from the European Research
   Council http://bit.ly/LLCku

* the European University Association recommendations on Open
   Access adopted by the EUA Council in March 2008
   http://bit.ly/kuVKB

Our first meeting was held at the University of Liege on 18
October 2007 (The Liege Convention).
http://recteur.blogs.ulg.ac.be/?p=151

We reconvened at the University of Southampton on 4 April 2008
during the Open Repositories 08 (OR08) conference.
http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/euro.html

Our next general meeting will be in Geneva in June 2009.

This website will report on developments of relevance to the
mission of Enabling Open Scholarship and will provide members
with news and details of forthcoming meetings, briefings and
discussion sessions.

Anyone who is interested in enrolling their institution as a
member, or in attending an EOS meeting or briefing session, is
invited to email the convenor of the group, Dr Alma Swan (contact
details). http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_5416/contact

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