The presentations from the Open Access Scholarly Communication Workshop (Kyiv, Ukraine, February 17-19, 2005), are now online. From the conference site: 'Workshop participants...recommended Ukrainian authorities to ensure the right of individuals and public to access information and knowledge and to guarantee that intellectual property regimes are not the obstacles to the public’s access to knowledge, to encourage research and higher educational institutions to practice open access, to put an open access condition to state funded researches (except reasonable exceptions) and to provide state fund and technical assistance to research and higher educational institutions to set up and maintain an open access repositories (a 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 except reasonable exceptions), to support ICT development in libraries, archives, museums and other organizations providing access to information and to provide state fund and technical assistance to open access to cultural heritage.' Also see Iryna Kuchma's report on the workshop.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/06/2005 08:27:00 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.
