A world in which scientific knowledge can be freely distributed, without barriers, through the Internet (the world’s vast unifying network).
This is the essence of the Berlin Declaration....Now Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) has also decided to sign....
In signing the Berlin Declaration, the participating institutions are committing themselves to promoting the Internet as a tool for developing scientific knowledge and to recognising the worldwide strategic role of open access....Encouraging scientific researchers to publish on the web and cultural institutions to make their resources available by creating open archives are fundamental prerequisites for the successful promotion of this new approach to the dissemination of scientific knowledge....
Comment. Kudos to all involved, especially INFN President Roberto Petronzio. Now to put the Berlin principles into practice: Will the INFN follow-up with a policy to provide OA to its research output?
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/25/2008 11:40:00 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.
