<div dir="ltr">Global:<b><font color="#ff0000"> Heads of public national research funding organisations from throughout the world have endorsed a ‘state of play’ report on Open Access to publications and adopted shared principles to support scientific career development.</font></b><br>
<br>These are the key outcomes of the 2014 annual meeting of the Global Research Council (GRC) held in Beijing, China.<br><br>The state of play report on Open Access is the result of a broad consultation of all GRC participants which followed the endorsement of the GRC Action Plan towards Open Access to Publications published in 2013.<div>
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