From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 08:13:40 -0400 Architect of European open-access plan heads to Washington to garner US support “We cannot afford to stand still or slow down. By the end of the year, if we don’t have more funders and statements of support, we will miss the boat,” says Robert-Jan Smits, the European Commission’s senior adviser on open access. Smits is in the United States this week to talk to research funders, scientific societies and representatives of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. “I’m going for business, not chit-chat,” he told Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06936-7