Open Access Statements

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.


 * This is a section within the larger Bibliography of open access.

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

"Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities." 22 October 2003. http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

"CERN Signs Berlin Declaration." Open Access Now, 7 June 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=17#news1

"European Institutions Support Open Access with the 'Berlin Declaration.'" Open Access Now, 17 November 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=9

Gruss, Peter. "Open Access to Science and Culture." Science Magazine, 16 January 2004, 311-312.

Kaser, Dick. "The Politics of Open Access." Information Today 20, no. 11 (2003): 16. http://www.infotoday.com/it/dec03/kaser2.shtml

Schiermeier, Quirin. "Open Access Wins German Support." Nature, 23 October 2003, 752.

Stafford, Ned. "Open Access Europe." The Scientist, 22 October 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031022/06

Suber, Peter. "Berlin Declaration." SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 67 (2003). http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/11-02-03.htm#berlin

= Bethesda Statement on Open Access =

"Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing." 20 June 2003. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm

= Budapest Open Access Initiative =

Budapest Open Access Initiative. "Budapest Open Access Initiative." 14 February 2002. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;. "Budapest Open Access Initiative Frequently Asked Questions." http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm

&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;. "Self-Archiving FAQ for the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)." http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/

Butler, Declan. "Soros Offers Open Access to Science Papers." Nature, 14 February 2002, 721. http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/soros.html

Dodd, Darren. "Scientists Push for Open Access Publishing." Information World Review, 17 April 2002. http://www.iwr.co.uk/iwreview/1130980

Friend, Frederick J. "BOAI: the Budapest Open Access Initiative." In 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI): Gaining Independence with E-Prints Archives and OAI, CERN, 17-19 October 2002, Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva: CERN, 2002. http://agenda.cern.ch/askArchive.php?base=agenda&amp;categ=a02333&amp;id=a02333s9t2/video

Grimwade, Alexander M. "Open Societies Need Open Access." The Scientist 16, no. 4 (2002): 10.

Gu&eacute;don, Jean-Claude. "The Budapest Initiative for Open Access." Information Services &amp; Use 23, no. 2-3 (2003): 171-173.

Gu&eacute;don, Jean-Claude, and Melissa Hagemann. "Creating Scientific Value with Open Access: A Background Paper for the Budapest Meeting, January 16-18, 2003." (2003). http://www.soros.org/openaccess/pdf/background_paper.pdf

Hagan, Pat. "Cash Boost for Research Access." The Scientist, 15 February 2002. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20020215/03

Peek, Robin. "The Great BOAI Experiment." Information Today 19, no. 4 (2002): 40.

Poynder, Richard. "George Soros Gives $3 Million to New Open Access Initiative." Information Today 19, no. 4 (2002): 20, 24. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020218-1.htm

Spedding, Vanessa. "What Is Best Practice for Open Access?" Research Information (Summer 2002). http://www.researchinformation.info/risummer02soros_open_society.html

Suber, Peter. "BOAI Discussion List Launched." D-Lib Magazine 9, no. 4 (2003). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/04inbrief.html#SUBER

&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;. "Budapest FOS Conference." Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 5 December 2001. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-05-01.htm

&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;. "The Budapest Open Access Initiative." Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 14 February 2001. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-14-02.htm

= NEAR =

Case, Mary M. "Community Responds to Proposals Regarding the Journals Crisis." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 204 (1999): 7-10. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/204/response.html

Shulenburger, David E. "Moving with Dispatch to Resolve the Scholarly Communication Crisis: From Here to NEAR." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 202 (1999): 2-3. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/202/shulenburger.html

= OECD Final Communique =

Editorial. "Declaring Good Intentions." Open Access Now, 15 March 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/editorials/?issue=14

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. "Science, Technology and Innovation for the 21st Century. Meeting of the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy at Ministerial Level, 29-30 January 2004&mdash;Final Communique." 30 January 2004. http://www.oecd.org/document/0,2340,en_2649_34487_25998799_1_1_1_1,00.html

Quint, Barbara. "OECD Ministers Support Open Access for Publicly Funded Research Data." Information Today NewsBreaks &amp; The Weekly News Digest, 9 February 2004. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040209-2.shtml

= Tempe Principles =

Alexander, Adrian. "Living the Principles&mdash;A Return to Tempe." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 215 (2001): 1-3. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/215/tempe.html

Bullington, Jeffrey, and Richard Fyffe. "From Crisis to Reform: University of Kansas Libraries Sponsor Campus Dialogue." College &amp; Research Libraries News 62, no. 1 (2001): 24-28.

Case, Mary M. "Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 210 (2000): 1-4. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/210/principles.html

Chodorow, Stanley A. "The Tempe Principles in Practice." The Serials Librarian 42, no. 1/2 (2002): 29-39.

Ferriero, David S. "A View from the Scholarly Communication Trenches: 'Tempe Principles' Stir Faculty Discussion." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 212 (2000): 10. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/212/scholcom.html

Magner, Denise K. "Seeking a Radical Change in the Role of Publishing." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 June 2000, A16-A17.

= Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science =

Farnham, Peter, and William R. Brinkley. "Society Publishers Provide More Than Open Access." The Scientist 18, no. 13 (2004): 8.

Giles, Jim. "Societies Take United Stand on Journal Access." Nature, 25 March 2004, 356.

Guterman, Lila. "Scientific Societies' Publishing Arms Unite against Open-Access Movement." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 March 2004, A20. http://chronicle.com/cgi2-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i29/29a02001.htm

Iglehart, John K. "Global Health Policy and Free Access to Information." Health Affairs 23, no. 3 (2004): 7-8. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/23/3/7

Malakoff, David. "Scientific Societies Lay Out 'Free Access' Principles." Science Magazine, 26 March 2004, 1959.

Mantell, Katie. "US Societies Back Expanded Free Access to Research." SciDev.Net, 18 March 2004. http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&amp;itemid=1280&amp;language=1

McConnell, Greg. "Online Journals Seek Alternatives to Open Access." AAP News 25, no. 1 (2004): 14. http://aapnews.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/25/1/14

Quint, Barbara. "Sci-Tech Not-for-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access." Information Today NewsBreaks &amp; The Weekly News Digest, 22 March 2004. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040322-2.shtml

Serva, Sandy. "Free For All? The Science of Publishing Research Online." EContent 27, no. 6 (2004): 11-12. http://www.ecmag.net/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=6611&amp;IssueID=208

Suber, Peter. "Reflections on the DC Principles." SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 72 (2004). http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-04.htm#dc

"Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science." 16 March 2004. http://www.dcprinciples.org/statement.pdf

= Wellcome Trust Position Statement and Research Reports =

Burke, Katherine. "Research Should Be Accessible to All, Says Wellcome Trust." BMJ, 11 October 2003, 828. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7419/828-b

Butler, Declan. "Wellcome to Fund Publication in Open-Access Journals." Nature, 2 October 2003, 440.

Mantell, Katie. "Open Access 'Can Cut Costs by Up to 30 Per Cent.'" SciDev.Net, 30 April 2004. http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&amp;itemid=1343&amp;language=1

"Open Access Gets a Wellcome Boost." 3 November 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=8

Pickering, Bobby. "Wellcome Says OA Will Reduce Publishing Costs." Information World Review, 12 May 2004. http://www.iwr.co.uk/iwreview/1155082

Pincock, Stephen. "Wellcome Support for Open Access." The Scientist, 1 October 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031001/03/

SQW Limited. Costs and Business Models in Scientific Research Publishing: A Report Commissioned by the Wellcome Trust. London: The Wellcome Trust, 2004. http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/images/costs_business_7955.pdf

&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;. Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing: A Report Commissioned by the Wellcome Trust. London: The Wellcome Trust, 2003. http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/images/SciResPublishing3_7448.pdf

Suber, Peter. "Wellcome Trust Commits to Open Access." SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 66 (2003). http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-03.htm#wellcome

Weitzman, Jonathan B., and Robert Terry. "Wellcome Support for Open Access." Open Access Now, 5 July 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&amp;issue=18

"Wellcome Report Says Open Access Will Significantly Reduce Publishing Costs." Open Access Now, 7 June 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=17#news2

Wellcome Trust. "Scientific Publishing: A Position Statement by the Wellcome Trust in Support of Open Access Publishing." 1 October 2003. http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtvispolpub.html

= World Summit on the Information Society Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action =

Ashling, Jim. "World Summit Gets Contentious." Information Today 20, no. 11 (2003): 30-31.

Dickson, David. "Information Summit Endorses Key Role of 'E-Science.'" SciDev.Net, 14 December 2003. http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&amp;itemid=1157&amp;language=1

&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;. "The Threat to Science as a 'Public Good.'" SciDev.Net, 17 March 2003. http://www.scidev.net/Editorials/index.cfm?fuseaction=readEditorials&amp;itemid=55&amp;language=1

&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;. "UN Meeting Urged to Back Open Access Science." SciDev.Net, 7 December 2003. http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&amp;itemid=1135&amp;language=1

&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;. "WSIS Hears Plea for Open Access." SciDev.Net, 11 December 2003. http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&amp;itemid=1145&amp;language=1

Kaser, Dick. "World Summit Embraces Open Access, Libraries." Information Today 21, no. 2 (2004): 1, 27.

Lyons, Patrice A. "The World Meets the Internet." D-Lib Magazine 10, no. 3 (2004). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march04/lyons/03lyons.html

Mantell, Katie. "World Summit Urged to Make Science More Available." SciDev.Net, 10 December 2003. http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&amp;itemid=1142&amp;language=1

Shimmon, Ross. "Digital Opportunity or Flashy Fizzle?" American Libraries 35, no. 2 (2004): 24-25.

Weitzman, Jonathan B., and Francis Muguet. "Lobbying for Open Access Legislation." Open Access Now, 7 June 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&amp;issue=17

World Summit on the Information Society. "Declaration of Principles." 12 December 2003. http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/md/03/wsis/doc/S03-WSIS-DOC-0004!!PDF-E.pdf

&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;. "Plan of Action." 12 December 2003. http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/md/03/wsis/doc/S03-WSIS-DOC-0005!!PDF-E.pdf

"World Summit on the Information Society Calls for Open Access." Open Access Now, 16 February 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=13

= Other =

Albanese, Andrew. “UKPMC Panel Issues Statement on Re-use of Open Access Articles.” Library Journal, 18 October 2007. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6491496.html?rssid=220

Association of College &amp; Research Libraries. "Principles and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication." (2003). http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/whitepapers/principlesstrategies.cfm

Case, Mary M. "Framing the Issue: Open Access." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 226 (2003): 8-11. http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/framing_issue_may04.pdf

Chillingworth, Mark. "Scots Declare Support for Open Access." Information World Review, 19 August 2004. http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2083857/scots-declare-support-open-access

Group of Eight. "Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Information." 25 May 2004. https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/754.html

Ibero-American Science &amp; Technology Education Consortium. "Open Access to Scholarship and Research in Latin America." 15 July 2004. http://dll.istec.org/modules.php?name=Content&amp;pa=showpage&amp;pid=54

Interacademy Panel on International Issues. "2003 Statement: Access to Scientific Information." 4 December 2003. http://www.interacademies.net/?id=7888

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. "IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation." December 2003. http://www.ifla.org/V/cdoc/open-access04.html

Medical Library Association. "MLA Statement on Open Access." October 2003. http://www.mlanet.org/government/info_access/openaccess_statement.html

Morrison, Heather. "Library Associations and Open Access: Update." 22 June 2004. http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0406/msg00128.html

Peek, Robin. "The Free-Access Debate Flourishes." Information Today 21, no. 5 (2004): 17-18.

Special Libraries Association. "Statement Regarding Open Access." 5 June 2004. http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/advocacy/OpenAccess.cfm

Spedding, Vanessa. "Will Learned Societies Signal the Change?" Research Information (May/June 2004). http://www.researchinformation.info/rimayjun04learnedsocieties.html

Suber, Peter. "The Havana Declaration." Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 23 January 2002. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-23-02.htm

&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;. "Two Other FOS Declarations." Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, 30 January 2002. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-30-02.htm

"Support for Open Access from Russian Scholarly Society." Open Access Now, 6 October 2003. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/news/?issue=6

UK PubMed Central Publishers Panel. “Statement of principle from the UKPMC Publishers Panel in relation to re-use of documents for which an open access fee has been paid.” (2007). http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc%5Fwtx041316.html

"The Valparaiso Declaration for Improved Scientific Communication in the Electronic Medium." 4 February 2004. https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/519.html

van Reenen, Johann. "Brazil Supports Open Access to Scientific Information." 16 June 2004. https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/793.html

Wray, Richard. "Commercial Publishers Face Scottish Open Access Challenge." The Guardian, 20 August 2004. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1286992,00.html


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