----- Original Message -----From: <RTD-SCIENTIFIC-PUBLICATION@ec.europa.eu> To:<RTD-SCIENTIFIC-PUBLICATION@ec.europa.eu> Cc:<RTD-SCIENTIFIC-PUBLICATION@ec.europa.eu> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:08 AM Subject: Your views on open access publishing are needed!

Dear FP project coordinators and grant recipients,

Please find below an invitation to contribute to a survey on open access conducted by the EC-funded project SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing).

Many thanks for taking the time to offer your input to this important debate.

Best regards, RTD SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION

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Your views on open access publishing are needed!

A debate is under way concerning open access publishing, peer review and publication fees and your views matter. The SOAP Project(*) is asking your help in filling an online survey to assess researchers' opinions on these important issues.

If you would like to contribute to shaping the public discourse on open access, please visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/soap_survey_k. It should take 10-15 minutes to complete.

We would appreciate if you would share this message widely among your work colleagues, research collaborators and project partners so that the views of your community are properly represented.

The survey outcome will be made public and the resulting insights as well as recommendations will be openly shared with the European Commission and other research funding agencies, publishers, and libraries.

(*) Note: The SOAP project is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Grant Agreement Nr. 230220 (Science in Society Programme). This survey is anonymous. All responses will be confidential and submitted anonymously. Each reply will be assigned a random processing number. No technical identification data is being collected. The data controller certifies that the above information is correct and guarantees that the results will be used in an aggregated from that will not allow the identification of individuals within a response category. This data processing operation has not been notified to the Data Protection Officer in accordance with recital No 8 of Regulation (EC) No 45/2001. The survey reflects only the author's views and that the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.