[IP-OA_Forum] Fwd: [GOAL] The Open Access Interviews: Johannes Fournier, speaking for the Global Research Council

[Katja Mruck <katja.mruck@fu-berlin.de>]

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Betreff: 	[GOAL] The Open Access Interviews: Johannes Fournier, speaking 
for the Global Research Council
Datum: 	Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:03:19 +0100
Von: 	Richard Poynder <richard.poynder@btinternet.com>
Antwort an: 	Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) 
<goal@eprints.org>
An: 	<goal@eprints.org>



During a two-day inaugural Global Summit on Merit Review held in 
Washington last May — which was organised by the US National Science 
Foundation (NSF) at the request of the White House Office of Science & 
Technology (OSTP) — a new organisation called the Global Research 
Council (GRC) came into being.

The first initiative of the GRC was to publish a Merit Review Statement. 
Released at the end of the Washington summit, this outlines a set of 
principles for assessing funding applications, including the need to 
provide expert assessment, transparency, impartiality, appropriateness, 
and confidentiality, as well as integrity and ethical consideration.

But for Open Access (OA) advocates, a more interesting outcome of the 
Washington summit was the news that the GRC had decided to take up the 
issue of OA. As a result, at a second summit — to be held in Berlin at 
the end of May — GRC will release consensus statements on both merit 
review and OA.

But what exactly is GRC, how will it be funded, what is its remit, and 
what precisely are its aspirations so far as Open Access is concerned?

To find out more I conducted an interview with Johannes Fournier, who 
works for the German Research Foundation (DFG).

The interview can be read here: 
http://poynder.blogspot.fr/2013/03/the-open-access-interviews-johannes.html



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