Last November, I noted that the rectors of 32 Italian universities had signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge. The signatures resulted from the Messina OA conference on November 4-5, 2004. Now it appears that many more than 32 Messina participants planned to sign the declaration but met with various kinds of delay. Now the universities and the declaration site are in synch, and an astounding 64 Italian universities have formally signed, twice the original number. (Thanks to Georg Botz.)
(PS: Kudos to all involved. More Italian universities have now signed the declaration than organizations of any kind from any country.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/01/2005 12:14:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
