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All European Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020

All European Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020

by The Daily Eye Team May 31 2016, 9:33 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secs

The European Union member states want to ensure that all scientific articles are freely accessible by 2020 so that anyone can optimally reuse research data.
At the meeting of the Competitiveness Council in Brussels on May 27, EU member states also decided that founders of foreign start-ups should be able to obtain a European visa and that EU legislation should take into account its impact on innovation—what they call the Innovation Principle.
The outcome of the meeting was a new holy trinity of free data, resting on three main tenets: "Sharing knowledge freely," "open access," and "reusing research data.

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Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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