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period. Furthermore, she said, the EC will experiment with faster and wider access and will support the cost of author payments in their research grants. At the end of the conference the EC published a rather banal, if balanced, Statement which had been prepared earlier. The statement may have been a disappointment to true believers in Open Access, but will have brought some comfort to the publishers. While noting the strategic importance of scientific information and the benefits to science and society of ready access to this information, it also noted that EU-based publishers produce 49% of total global journal output in an industry that employs 36,000 Europeans. Against this background, the EC will take the following actions: Access to Community funded research The EC will take measures to promote better access to the publications resulting from the research it funds, which will include a financial contribution towards publishing costs, including open access publishing. Co-funding of research infrastructures (in particular repositories) and projects The EC will intensify its activities regarding infrastructures relevant to scientific information, in particular linking digital repositories at the European level. Funding will be made available to this end for the period 2007-2008. Input for the future policy debate To feed the debate and the policy process, the EC will launch a study on the economic aspects of digital preservation, to start in 2007. Policy coordination and policy debate with stakeholders Further Deliberations and Discussions will be initiated and encouraged, both within the EU structures and with stakeholders. In its conclusion the EC acknowledges that access to, dissemination of, and preservation of scientific information are major challenges of the digital age. Success in each of these areas is of key importance for European information society and research policies. It also acknowledges that the different stakeholders in these fields have differing views on how to move forward towards improvements for access, dissemination and preservation. All, one has to acknowledge, true. You, dear reader, might think that these are rather pedestrian conclusions, considering the enormous amount of European energy, creativity and brainpower that has been devoted to this subject over the last 12 months. Given that a significant portion of the Brussels conference was devoted to a discussion of business models for the electronic world, you might, perhaps, also wonder why there was no speaker from another content-based industry — such as music — where the Internet has revolutionized …

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