Martin Ragg asked Germany's Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research or BMBF) for its position on OA. The answer is that BMBF neither requires nor encourages OA. But the final reports for BMBF-funded research are available to the public, in hardcopy. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.) Read the German original or Google's English.
By contrast, Germany's primary research funder, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft or DFG, has mandated OA since January 2006.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/09/2007 01:39:00 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.
