The Berlin Declaration follow-up conference, Berlin 2 Open Access: Steps Toward Implementation of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (Geneva, May 12-13, 2004) is now over. Its presentations are now online and so is its Roadmap Proposal for moving forward, written by Robert Schlögl and Theresa Velden. The Roadmap starts from the proposition that "Open access is the replacement for the conventional scholarly communication paradigm and not its 2nd class counterpart." Then it outlines steps for implementing the Berlin Declaration, such as educating stakeholders about OA, using Creative Commons licenses, expanding OAI-compliant infrastructure, facilitating the search and retrieval of OA content, encouraging the view that the cost of OA dissemination is part of the cost of research, forming alliances to accomplish specific tasks, and meeting periodically in the future to share ideas and report on progress.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/19/2004 11:38:00 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.
