On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:19 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Chess Pie <derby_...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Looks like a braindead law. >> Does the foundation have a specific position on OpenAccess? > > The WMF as an entity doesn't have a specific position/policy, though > in general we are squarely in the camp of OA supporters; but as Daniel > noted the Research Committee is working on an OA policy for funded > research studies, which I'm quite pleased about: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Areas_of_interest/Open-access_policy >
Actually we do have an official position--we are signatories to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access: http://oa.mpg.de/berlin-prozess/berliner-erklarung/ which states that its supporters believe in the importance of open access and work to promote it (the full document is actually pretty nice). -Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia free: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate Web: http://www.mindspillage.org Email: k...@wikimedia.org, k...@mindspillage.org (G)AIM, Freenode, gchat, identi.ca, twitter, various social sites: mindspillage _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l