Last week we heard that 13 Belgian university rectors and two government ministers planned to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge on February 13 --today. But today there are 17 new Belgian signatures on the Declaration: 15 rectors and two ministers. This is an excellent way for Brussels to welcome the participants in Thursday's EC-hosted conference on OA and scientific publishing.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/13/2007 11:00:00 AM.
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.