[I]n the next twenty-five years: ...Open access to and free flow of content will be of crucial importance for equitable knowledge acquisition and sharing....
[We must] stress the need to: ...Support open access to and free flow of content by the development of open standards, open data structures, and standardized info-structures; ...
It appears that the Kronberg declaration is independent of the German UNESCO Commission's June 28 resolution in support of OA (at Dessau). But if there's a connection between then, I'd be grateful if someone would drop me a line.
If the Kronberg delegates believe that "Open access to and free flow of content will be of crucial importance for equitable knowledge acquisition and sharing," then their declaration really ought to make a clear and useful recommendation to promote OA. For example: Governments ought to mandate OA to the results of publicly-funded research. Or: Universities ought to mandate OA to their research output. But since we already have some usefully specific declarations, it's more important to get on with the job of implementing them than to improve the Kronberg declaration.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/06/2007 05:29:00 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.
