I recently posted a comment on the 2852nd meeting of the "Internal Market,
Industry and Research Council" [0]
Professor Harnad responded that the meeting's conclusions are "vague, pious
banalities" [1]. Professor Suber was altogether more astucious [2].
But both professors failed to ask the obvious question - "Why now; why are
the Research Ministers issuing press releases now?" Ans: Because the
Research Ministers were finalising their wish-list for the EU summit meeting
next month [3].
The summit meeting, of heads of government and state, will be chaired by Dr
Danilo T�rk, President of the Republic of Slovenia, and former Professor of
International Law at the University of Ljubljana.
Dr T�rk has a long and distinguished list of publications [4], and the
Faculty of Computer and Information Science at his University has a nice
little EPrints archive [5].
So has anyone briefed Dr T�rk's colleagues on OA matters in Europe? Or is
this another opportunity missed for OA in the EU?