The voice of the research community February 2007 Project management: Key Perspectives Ltd, Truro, UK

On 17 January 2007 an online petition was launched by a consortium of publicly-funded organisations in Europe The petition calls for the European Commission to endorse in full the recommendations in the EU Study on the Economic & Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication markets of Europe, in particular Recommendation A1

In the first 24 days the petition gathered 18471signatures

European Commissioner for Science & Research Jan Potocnik received the petition immediately before this conference It was presented by Dr Sijbolt Noorda of the European Universities Association, a body that represents 780 universities in Europe

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Of the signatures there were: from individuals and743 from research-focused organisations

From the Countries of the European Union: individuals individuals 499 institutions

From European non-EU countries: 744 signatures

And from the rest of the world: 3612 signatures

9 national academies 8 university associations (rectors’ conferences) 9 government departments 6 research-based museums 119 universities and research institutes 17 research funders

43 learned publishing organisations 91 R&D-based companies 61 national societies or foundations 50 international societies or foundations 34 research library organisations 182 research libraries

Here are some of them

RESEARCH FUNDERS INEUROPE

European Research Council Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) German Research Council Austrian Science Fund Spanish National Research Council Wellcome Trust Volkswagen Foundation National Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation

CNRS (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, France) INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, France) Medical Research Council (UK) British Heart Foundation Association of Medical Research Charities (UK) Max Planck Society (Germany) Swedish Research Council

UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATIONS INEUROPE

Portuguese Rectors Conference Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (Germany) Irish Universities Association Finnish Council of University Rectors Association of Swedish Higher Education Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions Conference of Italian University Rectors UNICA – Universities of the Capitals of Europe)

NATIONAL ACADEMIES NATIONAL ACADEMIESINEUROPE

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History & Antiquities Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Royal Scientific Society of Jordan

Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences) Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Academia Romana (Romanian Academy) Hungarian Academy of Sciences Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences & Humanities

RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS INEUROPE

CERN (European Centre for Nuclear Research) BESSY (German Synchrotron Radiation Research Centre) DESY (German Electron Synchrotron: Helmholtz Association) Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics Germanisches Nationalmuseum Alfred Wegener Institute

Istituto Superiore di Sanita (National Institute of Health, Italy) CNRS-Paris Descartes Laboratory Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) Netherlands Space Research Institute Nordic Cochrane Centre German Centre for Gerontology

Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Istituto Universitario di Scienze Motorie, Rome IFO Institute for Economic Research, Munich RWI Essen (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) Brain Health Centre, Rome Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim

INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France) Dept Microbiology & the Food Chain Royal Netherlands Inst. of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research Herder Institute, Marburg

UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPE

Universidad de Huelva Università degli Studi del Molise Università degli Studi della Tuscia – Viterbo Università degli Studi di Messina Università degli Studi di Teramo Università degli Studi di Torino University Naples Federico II

University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara University of Bristol University of Cyprus University of Genoa University of Groningen University of Konstanz

University of Liege University of Lund University of Macerata University of Minho University of Naples ‘Parthenope’ University of Porto University of Calabria University of Coimbra

University of Southampton University of Strathclyde University of Twente University of Westminster University of Wolverhampton University of Zurich European University Institute, Firenze

University of London Birkbeck University of London Royal Holloway University of London School of Advanced Study University of G öte borg University of Ghent University of Umea

University of Kristianstad University of Stockholm National Pedagogical University, Lithuania Lithuanian University of Agriculture University of Giessen University of Goettingen University of Utrecht University of Halmstad

EUROPEAN RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS AND RESEARCHERS

Euroscience (European Association for the Advancement of Science & Technology) ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Information and Mathematics) euroCRIS (European Organisation for Current Research Information Systems) European Educational Research Association Academia Europaea ESIB (National Unions of Students in Europe) World Academy of Young Scientists

Total researchers with specified disciplines: 14812

6196 life scientists 1957 physical scientists 1995 engineers 2107 social scientists 1186 arts / humanities scholars 1371 multidisciplinary scholars

RESEARCH LIBRARIES

34 international or national research library organisations 182 research libraries 1908 librarians

18471 signatures in the first 24 days More are being added

The research community is speaking

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