[wos] weiterer Meilenstein der Open Access Sciences

[Volker Grassmuck]

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and 
Humanities

Preface

The Internet has fundamentally changed the practical and economic 
realities of distributing scientific knowledge and cultural heritage. 
For the first time ever, the Internet now offers the chance to 
constitute a global and interactive representation of human 
knowledge, including cultural heritage and the guarantee of worldwide 
access.

We, the undersigned, feel obliged to address the challenges of the 
Internet as an emerging functional medium for distributing knowledge. 
Obviously, these developments will be able to significantly modify 
the nature of scientific publishing as well as the existing system of 
quality assurance.

In accordance with the spirit of the Declaration of the Budapest Open 
Acess Initiative, the ECHO Charter and the Bethesda Statement on Open 
Access Publishing, we have drafted the Berlin Declaration to promote 
the Internet as a functional instrument for a global scientific 
knowledge base and human reflection and to specify measures which 
research policy makers, research institutions, funding agencies, 
libraries, archives and museums need to consider. 
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http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html


verabschiedet auf der 

Conference on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
20 - 22 Oct 2003, Berlin
http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/


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