In pursuit of the goal of access to information by all peoples, IFLA supports balance and fairness in copyright....IFLA and libraries and information services share the common vision of an Information Society for all adopted by the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva in December 2003. That vision promotes an inclusive society based on the fundamental right of human beings both to access and to express information without restriction and in which everyone will be able to create, access, use and share information and knowledge. IFLA urges national, regional and local governments as well as international organisations to:...[3] support unrestricted access to information and freedom of expression; [4] promote open access to information and address structural and other barriers to access....Adopted in Alexandria, Egypt, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, on 11 November 2005.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/15/2005 07:50:00 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.
