This is a report from Berlin 22 October. Today at 12:00 there will be a press release plus the text of the Berlin Declaration, a historically important step for the Open Access movements worldwide. In this Declaration, all of Germany's principal scientific and scholarly institutions, including the Max-Planck Society, as well as a growing number of their counterparts from other countries (such as France's CNRS) have signed their commitment to open access to scientific and scholarly research.
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html Excerpted core: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin.htm The Berlin Declaration is just the beginning of a series of steps that the signatories will be taking to promote open access. Among these steps, the Max-Planck Society is Edoc, an open-access repository of all of the research output of the Max-Planck Institutes' many research laboratories. This is a truly remarkable concerted act of institutional self-archiving, and a superb example for the research world at large. http://edoc.mpg.de
