Open science in the EU – Will the astroturfers take over?

By Pål Magnus Lykkja and Jan Petter Myklebust. European Commission (EC) President Jean-Claude Juncker’s transfer of heavyweight Robert-Jan Smits, the energetic outgoing director general of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, to the European Political Strategy Centre, an EC think-tank, as an ‘open access envoy’ has raised the prospect of added momentum being given to the commission’s plans for establishing a platform for open access by 2020. More...