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<DIV style="BORDER-LEFT: #050505 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 7px">From: Kim Beadle <beadle@stm-assoc.org><BR>Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:05:21 +0200<BR><BR>News release - 31 May 2012<BR><BR>PEER End of Project Results Conference - presentations available at<BR><A href="http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/">http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/</A><BR><BR>The PEER Project (www.peerproject.eu), held its final event to present<BR>its results on 29 May in Brussels. More than 100 attendees from the<BR>research, university, and STM publishing communities, as well as<BR>policy makers attended the conference. Comments by Vice President<BR>Neelie Kroes (Digital Agenda) from the European Commission opened the<BR>meeting (speech available at:<BR><A href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/12/392&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en)">http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/12/392&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en)</A><BR>followed by an agenda reflecting the collaborative nature of the PEER<BR>project with results and perspectives from various stakeholders<BR>presented throughout the day. The presentations given at this event<BR>as well as the PEER Executive Partner statements resulting from this<BR>successful project can be found online at:<BR><A href="http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/.">http://www.peerproject.eu/peer-end-of-project-conference-29th-may-2012/.</A><BR><BR>The PEER project, supported by the EC eContentplus programme<BR>(http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm),<BR>aimed to investigate the effects of the large-scale, systematic<BR>depositing of authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called<BR>Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access,<BR>author visibility, and journal viability, as well as on the broader<BR>ecology of European research.<BR><BR>For any enquiries relating to PEER, please contact Julia Wallace,<BR>Project Manager of PEER at wallace@stm-assoc.org<BR><BR>______________________________________________<BR><BR>About PEER:<BR><BR>PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), supported by<BR>the EC eContentplus programme<BR>(http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm),<BR>is investigating the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing<BR>of authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open<BR>Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author<BR>visibility, and journal viability, as well as on the broader ecology<BR>of European research. The project is a collaboration between<BR>publishers, repositories and researchers and runs from September 2008<BR>to May 2012<BR><BR>For further information on PEER, visit the website: <A href="http://www.peerproject.eu/">http://www.peerproject.eu/</A><BR><BR>PEER Partners: International Association of Scientific, Technical and<BR>Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Göttingen<BR>State and University Library, the Max Planck Society, INRIA, SURF<BR>Foundation and University of Bielefeld<BR><BR>STM publishers participating in PEER: BMJ Publishing Group; Cambridge<BR>University Press; EDP Sciences; Elsevier; IOP Publishing; Nature<BR>Publishing Group; Oxford University Press; Portland Press; Sage<BR>Publications; Springer; Taylor & Francis Group; Wiley-Blackwell<BR><BR>PEER repositories: eSciDoc.PubMan.PEER, Max Planck Digital Library<BR>(MPDL), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.<BR>(MPG); HAL, CNRS & Institut national de recherche en informatique et<BR>en automatique (Inria); Göttingen University/ Göttingen State and<BR>University Library (UGOE); SSOAR - Social Sciences Open Access<BR>repository (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences); TARA -<BR>Trinity College Dublin (TCD); University Library of Debrecen (ULD)<BR>Long term preservation archive: e-depot, Koninklijke Bibliotheek<BR></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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