Good news for the ERC
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. (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.
- 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.
- The ERC has no web site yet. But I’ll blog the URL as soon as I learn it.
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