ALLEA makes fresh case for open access scholarly publishing
A call to provide researchers across the EU with ‘secondary publication rights’ (SPR) has been made by the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA).
Secondary Publication Rights (SPR) would allow researchers to share publicly-funded scholarly articles through their institutional, or other non-profit outlets, in parallel to publication in academic journals and without the need to seek permission from the publishers that often own the copyrights.
SPRs are currently in use in six member states of the European Union. ALLEA has long campaigned for an Open Access model of scholarly publishing, and has used Open Access Week to restate its case, arguing that SPRs should to be introduced in a harmonised form across the whole EU.
ALLEA represents more than 50 academies from about 40 EU and non-EU countries. The Learned Society of Wales is a member jointly with the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society, and the British Academy.