European Commission Scientific Publishing Report

The European Commission has finally released its report on scientific publishing and now has firmly placed itself in the international discussion of where such publishing should go in the future. In June 2004, the European Commission began a study to examine the economic and technical evolution of scientific publishing in Europe. Originally the results were going to be made available in 2005, but the final report was released in January 2006. It was only made available to the public on March 31, 2006. The study was carried out by a consortium led by Mathias Dewatripont of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

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The study, entitled “Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific publication markets in Europe,” is available for downloading at http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf