Berlin Declaration on Open Access
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
Re: Berlin Declaration on Open Access
- Original Message - From: Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk 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 I had trouble finding any full-text, open-access research articles (literature that would otherwise be inaccessible without a subscription) in edoc? All the best, Tim.
Re: Berlin Declaration on Open Access
Dear Tim, just to explain why you might not see full-texts. At first we have state that this project is in the early stages of acceptance (which is growing week by week), but we hope that this Berlin Declaration will encourage scientists in using this repository. In general, some institutes have still not adopted the system as it is intended in the form of an institutional repository, but rather as internal bibliographic management system, which is also a purpose of eDoc. We deliberately allowed this scenario in order to get people acquainted with the system and to win them as users for the full potential of an institutional repository. In the case of institutes, which have not yet adopted the full concept of the system you will not even see the collections they have created. Nevertheless, I can point you to some institutes which already use the full potential of the eDoc server and archive some of their papers without restrictions: e.g. MPI Kernphysik, Fritz Haber-Institut MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and some more. Moreover, it depends completly on the individual scientist/institute what access level they choose. They might give public access, MPG wide access and internal access on file level (also depending on the copyright agreements they signed with publishers). We as the builders and promoters from eDoc strongly encourage the public access to research material. With the Berlin Declaration also the Max Planck Society as such will encourage their scientists to publish according to open access principles. Regards, Ulla, Gerhard
Re: Berlin Declaration on Open Access
Anpther system is the European Nuclear Physics Research Facility GSI Darmstadt is starting its Document Retrieval System DoRe as an open access selfarchiving of their documents, see http://www-new.gsi.de/search/DoRe/index.html and look at our dynamic graphics http://www-new.gsi.de/~harvest/graphics/index.html for it which gives the actual number and type (with/without Metadata) of documents. Also, this system, is in the making. Eberhard Hilf . Eberhard R. Hilf, Dr. Prof.; CEO (Geschaeftsfuehrer) Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH an der Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Ammerlaender Heerstr.121; D-26129 Oldenburg ISN-home: http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/ homepage: http://isn-oldenburg.de/~hilf email : h...@isn-oldenburg.de tel : +49-441-798-2884 fax : +49-441-798-5851 On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Stevan Harnad wrote: 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 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
Re: Berlin Declaration on Open Access
Tim Brody correctly observed that there are not many (self-archived) papers to be found on eDoc, the institutional server of the Max Planck Society, which Stevan so enthusiastically pointed to in his report from the Berlin Conference on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. To date only a few hundred of 15 000 records contained in the system have an archival, openly accessable copy of the work attached. This is because we are only at the very beginning of a process. With the signing of the Berlin Declaration today though we have made an important step forward, by documenting the commitment of the president of our organization as well as the heads of all major research organizations in Germany and further national and international organizations (e.g. CNRS and INSERM) to move towards open access. For the Max Planck Society the eDoc Server, which was introduced to almost all 80 institutes of the Society during this summer will play a central role in this process. With the political backing and the educational activities which will now be initiated to promote open access among the research community of the Society we expect the open access content offered there to increase significantly within the next year. Best regards, Theresa Theresa Velden vel...@zim.mpg.de Heinz Nixdorf Center for Information Management in the Max Planck Society (www.zim.mpg.de) Boltzmannstr. 2, IPP/ITER building D 85748 Garching, Germany fon +49(0)89-3299-1550, secretariat: -1551 fax +49(0)89-3299-1555
