On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Rabow Ingegerd wrote: > The Swedish Association of Higher Education (SUHF) has decided to sign > the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences > and Humanities. > > http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
This, together with the simultaneous signing of the Buenos Aeres Declaration -- http://www.inforosocial.org/declaration.html -- is very good news. But can we hope that having declared their support for the *abstract principle* of Open Access, the Swedish and Latin American research institutions will also demonstrate their support for the *concrete practice* of Open Access Provision -- by going on to adopt an Open-Access Provision Policy and describing it for others to emulate by signing the Declaration of Institutional Commitment to Providing Open Access to Institutional Research Output? (As will be seen from that list, rather fewer institutions have actually adopted the practice than have endorsed the principle!): http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@amsci.org UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml