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Open access can breathe new energy and productivity in to the work of research.
Formally embracing the open access ethic, the European Commission is now requiring that results from some of the research it funds be freely available. Authors will deposit a copy of their articles in a “digital repository,” a kind of electronic library accessible through the Web.
But while many institutions have their own, pre-existing repositories for published documents, these are not comprehensively linked and searchable. And some institutions hosting EC-funded researchers are without digital libraries for keeping research papers.
How to solve this problem?
With OpenAIRE.
Launched on the first of December, this project will create the e-infrastructure needed to archive scientific results and give anyone, anywhere, at anytime, access to them.
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