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The European Commission has been broadly supportive of open access policies for some time. It is already piloting open access for 20% of the research it funds under the €50 billion Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), citing what it calls the "fifth freedom", "the free circulation of researchers and scientific knowledge". So what's new?
For a start it is notable that the EC explicitly highlights open access to scientific research data as well as to scientific research publications. It explicitly highlights parallels between opening up publicly funded research data and opening up public sector data. And - interestingly - it explicitly mentions not only scientists and research institutions but also citizens as potential users of scientific data.
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