Your views on Open Access publishing

[Science Dissemination Unit]

Dear colleagues,
Your views on open access publishing are needed! (A strong participation
of physicists in the survey below would be highly desirable).
Cordially yours,
 the SDU Team



The SOAP Project (*), funded by the European Commission, would like to
announce the release of an online survey to assess researchers' experiences
with open access publishing. This survey aims to inform the most
comprehensive analysis of attitudes to open access publishing to date and
is seeking views from a wide a range of interested parties. It is primarily
aimed at active researchers in public and private organizations, from all
research fields in science and the humanities and focuses on publication of
research articles in (open access) peer-reviewed journals.

If you would like to contribute to shaping the public discourse on open
access, please visit http://surveymonkey.com/soap_survey_d. It should take
10-15 minutes to complete. We would appreciate if you would share this link
with your colleagues and collaborators so that the views of your discipline
are properly represented.

The survey outcome will be made public and the resulting insights as well
as recommendations will be openly shared with the European Commission,
publishers, research funding agencies, libraries and researchers.

The SOAP Website ist at http://project-soap.eu/

Thanks in advance, the SOAP Project Team info at project-soap.eu


(*) Note: The SOAP consortium is coordinated by CERN, the European
Organization for Nuclear Research. It represents key stakeholders in open
access, such as publishers BioMed Central, SAGE and Springer; funding
agencies (the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council) and libraries
(the Max Planck Digital Library of the Max Planck Society). The project
runs for two years, from March 2009 to February 2011.

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