What Next for Researchers in Europe? A Webinar on the May 2024 European Commission Study Identifying Copyright and Other Barriers Faced by the European Research Sector

Professor Caterina Sganga (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy), co-author of the European Commission report on "Improving access to and reuse of research results, publications and data for scientific purposes", will outline some of the report's main recommendations. Key KR21 themes reflected in this study: secondary publishing rights; open norms and support for knowledge valorisation; challenges for AI and other cutting-edge research; open access for publicly funded research. This matters because researchers: face hurdles, such as: access barriers due to a lack of subscriptions; paywalls and technological protection measures (TPMs); research-limiting contracts; steer away from AI and machine learning for fear of copyright infringement