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<p class="MsoNormal">I thought this announcement might be of interest: <a href="https://www.scienceeurope.org/coalition-s/">https://www.scienceeurope.org/coalition-s/</a> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"On 4 September 2018, 11 national research funding organisation, with the support of the European Commission including the European Research Council (ERC), announced the launch of cOAlition S, an initiative to make full and immediate Open
Access to research publications a reality.” </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of their principles strongly hints of the next generation repositories' model (preservation + peer review and assessment layered on top of repositories): </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>“The importance of open archives and repositories for hosting is acknowledged because of their long term archiving function and their potential for editorial innovation"</b> </p>
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