Published August 31, 2006 | https://doi.org/10.63485/1hfx0-ts037

Good news for the ERC

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The first Secretary-General of the new European Research Council (ERC) will be Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, the current President of Germany's Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).  For more details, see Gretchen Vogel's story in yesterday's issue of Science.

Comments.

  1. This is very good news for those of us hoping that the ERC will mandate OA for ERC-funded research.  (The ERC will fund €1 billion worth of research every year.)  It's good news because under Winnacker's leadership, the DFG adopted a strong OA policy for DFG-funded research. 
  2. Another ground for hope: one member of the ERC's Scientific Council is Wendy Hall, a professor at the University of Southampton Department of Electronics and Computer Science, which mandates OA to the research output of the department.
  3. The ERC has no web site yet.  But I'll blog the URL as soon as I learn it.

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The first Secretary-General of the new European Research Council (ERC) will be Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, the current President of Germany's Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). For more details, see Gretchen Vogel's story in yesterday's issue of Science . Comments . This is very good news for those of us hoping that the ERC will mandate OA for ERC-funded research.

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