Wikipedia says "In ballet, a pas de deux (French, step/dance for two) is a duet in which ballet steps are performed together. It usually consists of an entrée, adagio, two variations (one for each dancer), and a coda" [1].
Europe watchers from the OA camp know all about this. We have already seen the entrée [2]; the adagio [3] and the first variation [4,5,6] (danced by the European Commission). Now we have the second variation (danced by the European Council, and just published)... THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION ... snip ... 6) INVITES THE COMMISSION TO ... snip ... ~V experiment with open access to scientific data and publications resulting from projects funded by the EU Research Framework Programmes in order to assess the appropriateness of adopting specific contractual requirements>> ... snip ... For more, see [7] N. Miradon [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pas_de_deux [2] http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf [3] http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/communication-022007_en.pdf [4] http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind07&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&D=1&O=D&F=l&S=&P=38714 [5] http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind07&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&D=1&O=A&F=l&P=60880 [6] http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind07&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&D=1&O=A&F=l&P=103927 [7] http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/intm/97236.pdf
