This Call was drafted on the campus Jussieu in Paris by a French group comprising researchers and scientific publishing professionals working together in Open Access and Public Scientific Publishing task forces of BSN (Bibliothèque scientifique numérique, or Digital Scientific Library).
This Call is aimed at scientific communities, professional associations and research institutions to promote a scientific publishing open-access model fostering bibliodiversity and innovation without involving the exclusive transfer of journal subscription monies to APC payments.
As asserted in the Amsterdam Call released in 2016, Open Access to scientific publishing is at a crossroads. After several years of an exacting struggle aiming at persuading somewhat skeptical stakeholders, Open Access has now won strong support and a rapid shift of the scientific communication system to an Open Access publishing model can be expected. “The time for talking about open access is now past”.
The means to achieve the goal of Open Access are yet to be discussed. We believe that the issue of business models has to be refocused in the broader perspective of the editorial processes and methods upon which research and innovation will rely in the future and that they may only develop for the benefit of a very broad bibliodiversity.
We find it necessary to foster an Open Access model that is not restricted to a single approach based on the transfer of subscriptions towards APCs (publication fees charged to authors to allow free access to their articles). Such an approach would hamper innovation and otherwise would slow if not check the advent of bibliodiversity. Therefore, we adhere to the Joint Statement of UNESCO and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) on Open Access which highlights all the difficulties caused by this single model.
Our goal is thus to develop and implement alternative models matching the aims of open science by asserting the need of supporting innovation for a thorough renewal of publishing functions as proclaimed by the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) and the International Council for Science (ICSU).
Open Access must be complemented by support for the diversity of those acting in scientific publishing – what we call bibliodiversity – putting an end to the dominance of a small number among us imposing their terms to scientific communities;
the development of innovative scientific publishing models must be a budget priority because it represents an investment into services meeting the genuine needs of researchers in our digital age;
the research evaluation system should be thoroughly reformed and adapted to the practices of scientific communication;
more investment efforts in open source tools upon which these innovative practices are based should be made and coordinated;
the scientific community needs a secure and stable body of law across different countries to facilitate the availability of text mining services and thus strengthen their use;
the scientific communities must be able to access national and international infrastructures which guarantee the preservation and circulation of knowledge against any privatization of contents. Business models should be found which preserve their long-term continuity;
priority should be given to business models that do not involve any payments, neither for authors to have their texts published nor for readers to access them. Many fair funding models exist and only require to be further developed and extended: institutional support, library contributions or subsidies, premium services, participatory funding or creation of open archives, etc.
We endorse the clear message to the scientific community at large released by the League of European Research Universities (LERU): Research funding should go to research, not to publishers! This is why current journal subscription spendings should be changed into investments enabling the scientific community to regain control over the publishing system and not merely into new spendings only earmarked to pay the publication fees for researchers to commercial publishers.
We call on creating an international consortium of stakeholders whose primary aim should be to pool local and national initiatives or to build an operational framework to fund open access publishing, innovation and sharing of resulting developments. We call on research organizations and their libraries to secure and earmark as of now a share of their acquisition budgets to support the development of scientific publishing activities, which are genuinely open and innovative, and address the needs of the scientific community.
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Serge BAUIN; Céline BARTHONNAT; Christine BERTHAUD; Thierry BOUCHE; Francois CAVALIER; Gregory COLCANAP; Odile CONTAT; Nathalie FARGIER; Thierry FOURNIER; Anne-Solweig GREMILLET; Frédéric HÉLEIN; Odile HOLOGNE; Emmanuelle JANNES-OBER; Jacques LAFAIT; Annie LE BLANC; Jean François LUTZ; Sandrine MALOTAUX; Jacques MILLET; Pierre MOUNIER; Jean-Francois NOMINÉ; Christine OKRET-MANVILLE; Christine OLLENDORFF; Sébastien RESPINGUE-PERRIN; Julien ROCHE; Laurent ROMARY; Dominique ROUX; Joachim SCHOPFEL; Bernard TEISSIER; Armelle THOMAS; Céline VAUTRIN
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Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l’environnement et l’agriculture - France
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Université de Lorraine - France
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Conférence des présidents d’université - France
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Centre pour les humanités numériques et l’histoire de la justice - France
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Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France - France
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Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique - France
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Université Pierre et Marie Curie - France
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Conférence permanente des directeurs-trices de laboratoires en sciences de l’information et de la communication - France
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Conférence des directeurs des écoles françaises d’ingénieurs (206 écoles) - France
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Institut d’études politiques de Paris - France
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Conférence des Grandes Écoles - France
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Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science) - Netherlands
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European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - Europe
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Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer - France
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Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - France
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Institut des sciences et industries du vivant et de l’environnement - France
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France
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Belgique
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Ecole Normale Supérieure - France
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Aix-Marseille Université - France
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Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers - France
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Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellie - France
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Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées - France
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - France
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Université Sorbone Paris Cité - France
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Université Côte d’Azur - France
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Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay - France
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Canada
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Réseau National des Maisons des Sciences de l’Homme - France
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Université Paris-Sud - France
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Canada
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Universität des Saarlandes - Germany
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France
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France
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Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble - France
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Université de Strasbourg - France
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Consortium Couperin - France
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Max Weber Stiftung - Deutschland
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Belgique
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Université de Bretagne Occidentale - France
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Cité des humanités et des sciences sociales - France
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Ecole Nationale Supérieure Mines-Télécom Atlantique - France
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Université de Bourgogne - France
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Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - France
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Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - France
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Open Access India - India
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Association des Directeurs et personnels de direction des Bibliothèques universitaires et de la Documentation - France
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Association des responsables IST (information scientifique et technique) des organismes français de recherche - France
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Club utilisateur de l’archive ouverte HAL - France
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France
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Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche - Europe
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Netherlands
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Collectif de recherche transdisciplinaire esprit critique & sciences - France
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Associazione Italiana per la promozione della Scienza Aperta - Italia
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Return on Academic Research - Italia
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Association du Réseau des URFIST - France
21/11/2017
Canadian Association of Research Libraries - Canada
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Consortium des bibliothèques universitaires francophone de Belgique - Belgique
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France
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Association for the promotion of library and information science communication - Deutschland
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Confederation of Open Access Repositeries - International
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Agencia de Comunicación de Ciencia Y Filosofía - Mexico
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Sparc Europe - Europe
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Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science - Serbia
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France
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France
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Association pour la Recherche en Didactique des Mathématiques - France
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute - Suisse
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Portugal
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Société de mathématiques appliquées et industrielles - France
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Alliage (culture, science, technique) - France
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Open Access Publishing in European Network foundation - Europe
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Consortium Erudit - Canada
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Association science et bien commun - Canada
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Société Mathématique de France - France
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Panamerican Journal of Neuropsychology - Latin America
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The Open Library of Humanities - United Kingdom
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Œconomia – History, Methodology, Phisolophy - France
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Red de Revistas Cientificas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal - Mexico
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Netherlands
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Radical Open Access Collective - United Kingdom
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Peer Community in - France
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Société Française de Biophysique - France
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Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal - Mexico
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France
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France
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France
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Netherlands
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Scientific communities, research institutions and scientific and technical information professional associations and organizations are called to support the Jussieu Call.
How to do this : The President/chairperson of the signatory sends an email indicating the agreement of his/her institution together with an official web logo and institutional title
to : JussieuCall at gmail dot com