[Insight-users] Open Access Science : Berlin Declaration

[Luis Ibanez]

FYI:

(from Science Jounal, Vol 303, 16. Jan 2004. pp 311.)

" The major german research organizations, together
   with a dozen other national and international
   reseach centers, signed the Berlin Declaration
   on Open Accees to Knowledge in the Sciences..."

http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html


This declaration follows the spirit of
the Budapest Open Access Initiative:

http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml


The following two actions are listed
among the ways of promoting Open Access:


   * Advocating that open access publication be
     recognized in promotion and tenure evaluation.


   * Advocating the intrinsic merit of contributions
     to an open access infrastructure by software
     tool development, content provision, metadata
     creation, or the publication of individual articles.


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The Open Society Institute published a guide for
the creation of Institutional Repository Software.

http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/OSI_Guide_to_Institutional_Repository_Software_v2.htm

A table comparing the features of several software platforms
supporting Open Access publishing is available at
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/pdf/OSI_Guide_to_Institutional_Repository_Software_Table_v2.pdf

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These initiatives complement the efforts of other organizations
such as the Public Library of Sciece (PLoS).

           http://www.plos.org/


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   Luis