Denmark releases Houghton report and announces OA initiatives

Denmark announces both an OA committee and an OA network in the wake of the Danish Houghton report.

 

Re-release

 

Economist John Houghton and his team has recently finished the third report in a series of cost/benefit analysis. The first report was for British JISC (summary here). The second report was for Dutch SURFfoundation (summary here), and the third and newest report is for Danish DEFF (report and summary not yet public). Also, the three reports have been augmented by a comparison. This series of reports for Knowledge Exchange partner countries follows an Australian report and an OECD report on the same matters. Britain, the Netherlands and Denmark are three of the four countries involved in the Knowledge Exchange programme (KE), and KE arranged a presentation to the European Commission on Monday June 22nd 2009 in Brussels. The reports show clearly that although there are differences between the countries, all three of them stand to save huge sums of money in an Open Access world; not just in added benefits to society but in terms of cash savings as well. The road to OA can be travelled withing existing budgets and savings and added benefits are immediate.

 

Denmark also announced several OA initiatives in the wake of the report and to adhere to conclusions of the European Council.

 

More information here (in Danish, translations forthcoming)

 

John Houghton's reports can be found via Knowledge Exchange

 

Author: MC
Date: 17 September 2009