Two committees of Germany's Archivreferentenkonferenz des Bundes und der Länder (ARK) released a report in March, Digitalisierung von Archivgut im Kontext der Bestandserhaltung [Digitization of archival documents in the context of conservation], highlighting the value of OA for archival content. ARK coordinates all state archives in Germany.
Klaus Graf excerpts the key passage. Read it in German or Google's English. He adds in a separate email, "This is the first 'official' statement of the archival community in Germany about OA."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/03/2008 12:30:00 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.
