The European Commission has announced unrestricted access to research results under Horizon 2020, the new EU funding programme to boost research and innovation, as of January 2014.
In accordance with this new open access policy for scientific publications, JRC (Joint Research Centre) articles in peer-reviewed publications where JRC staff members are first or corresponding author will be freely and publicly available, making the majority of JRC scientific results accessible online. It is expected that providing other researchers, innovative industries and citizens access to the JRC's research results will lead to better and more efficient science and improved transparency for citizens and society.
From 2010 onwards, many JRC scientific research results, such as science & policy, technical and reference reports, books and some scientific articles, were already publicly available in PUBSY, the JRC's Publications Management System. Opening access to all scientific articles is one more step in broadening the JRC's Open Access policy. JRC researchers are now expected to publish any new peer-reviewed research paper in journals that are compliant with the updated policy.
