The European Science Foundation (ESF) released a report this week which aims to accelerate the adoption of open access to research articles in the biomedical sciences. The briefing emphasises the "moral imperative" (ESF 2012) of open access to maximise the value of biomedical research. It recommends a joint effort by individual agencies to promote this imperative and calls for all stakeholders in biomedical research, including funding agencies, publishers, research performing institutions, research libraries and learned societies to support the extension of a European PubMed Central as a Europe-wide repository in biomedicine.
The full briefing is available from the European Science Foundation (ESF)