---------- Forwarded message ---------- List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 08:27:32 -0500 From: Peter Suber <pet...@earlham.edu> To: SPARC Open Access Forum <sparc-oafo...@arl.org>
[Forwarding from Iryna Kuchma. --Peter.] An Open Access Scholarly Communication Workshop was held for the first time in Central and Eastern Europe on February 17-19, 2005, hosted by National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (one of the oldest Central-European Universities), organized by International Renaissance Foundation (Soros FoundationUkraine), Open Society Institute (OSI), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, International Association of Academies of Sciences and National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy, and supported by East-East Program: Partnership Beyond Boarders of OSI and the British Council Ukraine. The workshop focused on the free availability of peer-reviewed scholarly articles online. Over 140 researchers, administrators, librarians, information managers from higher educational institutions and scientific research laboratories involved in e-journal publishing and institutional repository development from 17 countries discussed benefits of open access scholarly communication, best practices of launching open access journals and converting subscription-based journals to open access, the development of institutional repositories,, reasonable copyright for open access scholarship and other related issues. The workshop participants based their discussions on the principles of Budapest Open Access Initiative, Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation, and Declaration of Principles WSIS and made their own recommendations on open access to information and knowledge and reasonable copyright development. The participants recommended that the Ukrainian authorities ensure the right of individuals and the public to access information and knowledge and to guarantee that intellectual property regimes are not the obstacles to the publics access to knowledge, to encourage research and higher educational institutions to practice open access, to put an open access condition to state funded researches (except reasonable exceptions) and to provide state fund and technical assistance to research and higher educational institutions to set up and maintain an open access repositories (a condition of government assistance should be that the institution adopt a policy to encourage or require its researchers to deposit their research output in the repository except reasonable exceptions), to support ICT development in libraries, archives, museums and other organizations providing access to information and to provide state fund and technical assistance to open access to cultural heritage. The recommendations were addressed to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, Parliament Committee on Education and Science, Parliament Committee on Culture and Spirituality, Parliament Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information, International Association of Academies of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences, Academy of Law of Ukraine, Academy of Pedagogical Researches, National Institute for Strategic Studies, State Fund for Fundamental Researches, Higher Attestation Committee, UNESCO International Scientific-Educational center on information systems and technologies of NAS of Ukraine and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and rectors of higher educational institutions. Workshop proceedings are posted on the Access to Knowledge web-site: http://www.a2k.org.ua/?lng=en . Detailed information may be obtained from Iryna Kuchma, Social Capital and Academic Publications Program Manager, International Renaissance Foundation, kuc...@irf.kiev.ua, tel: +380 (44) 461 95 00, fax: +380 (44) 216 01 66, http://www.irf.kiev.ua/programs/inf/scaap
