Here are some excerpts from my proposal: 'Signatory nations should put an open-access condition on publicly-funded research grants. By accepting a grant, the grantee agrees to provide open access (OA) to any publications that result from the funded research. The funding agency should give the grantee a choice of methods for providing OA to the resulting publications. Grantees should be able to choose between OA journals and OA archives (also called OA repositories). The OA archives should meet certain conditions of accessibility, interoperability, and long-term preservation. The interoperability condition could be satisfied by complying with the metadata harvesting protocol of the Open Archives Initiative....Signatory nations should provide funds and technical assistance for all universities and research centers in the country to set up and maintain their own OA repositories. One condition of government assistance should be that the institution adopt a policy to encourage or require its researchers to deposit their research output in the repository....Signatory nations should provide funds and technical assistance for digitizing and providing open access to the nation's cultural heritage. Signatory nations should sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/23/2005 05:43:00 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.
