‘Opening Knowledge: Retaining Rights and Licensing in Europe 2023’: https://lnkd.in/eVg9HTK7 The report, prepared with the support of Knowledge Rights 21, reveals the progress of institutional rights preservation policies in Europe, provides insights into open access rights preservation policies and offers options to address different situations. The report is of particular importance because there is a diversity of […]

In its conclusions, the Council of the EU calls on the Commission and Member States to support policies aimed at a model of academic publishing that is not-for-profit, open access and in multiple formats, at no cost to authors or readers. This is an advance of the utmost importance for science and the research community. […]

The workshop focused on the implementation of the priority actions under the new policy agenda for the European Research Area 2022-2024 and part of the June 2022 Council conclusions on the implementation of open science. The priority action aims to: – identify barriers and challenges to access to and re-use of publicly funded research and […]

We tend to associate the civil law systems that dominate in Europe with narrowly defined exceptions, only allowing users to undertake a specific, predefined task. But in fact, traditionally, civil law systems have been characterised as codifying broad and flexible principles into law, giving courts much leeway in their interpretation. It is only over the […]