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

Drafted in accordance with the spirit of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the ECHO Charter and the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, the Berlin Declaration emerged from a conference on open access hosted by the Max Planck Society in Berlin in 2003. It aims at promoting 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 must consider. To date over 280 organisations have signed the Berlin Declaration.

The link address is: http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html