"In order to implement the Berlin Declaration institutions should implement a policy to:

1. require their researchers to deposit a copy of all their published articles in an open access repository

and

2. encourage their researchers to publish their research articles in open access journals where a suitable journal exists (and provide the support to enable that to happen)."

Please register your institution's commitment to implementing an institutional self-archiving policy (and describe your policy) at http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php. Current list of institutions and policies: http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php.

Presentations

Meeting Reports

• Stevan Harnad: A summary of this meeting and of its important recommendation to institutions wishing to implement the Berlin Declaration is published in DLib 11(3) March 2005.
• Paola Gargiulo: A summary of the meeting (in Italian) http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00003345/

Policy Commitments:

• Scottish Declaration on Open Access (pre-dates Berlin 3)
  Since Berlin 3:
• CNRS (France, Centre national de la recherche scientifique) signs the Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies to register its commitment to implementing the Berlin Declaration in its institutional repository, HAL, on 17 March 2005.
• Finnish Ministry of Education recommends OA for Finish research on March 18 2005.
• INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) signs the Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies to register its commitment to implementing the Berlin Declaration on 30 March 2005.
• CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) signs the Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies to register its commitment to implementing the Berlin Declaration on 24 March 2005.
• University of Kansas becomes the first U.S. university to sign the Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies on 7 April 2005.
• The University of Bielefeld, Germany signs the Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies on 8 June 2005.
• Case Western Reserve University signs the Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies on 14 June 2005.
• The Swedish Higher Education Association summarises and endorses the Berlin 3 recommendations on June 14 2005.
• The Russell Group -- 19 of the major research-led universities in the UK -- have released a Statement on Scholarly Communication and Publishing echoing the recommendations of the UK Parliamentary Select Committee by pledging to "support the development of institutional repositories of research papers... [and to] actively encourage their researchers to deposit their work in them" (Of the Russell Group 84% [16/19] already have institutional repositories.) 17 June 2005.
• Research Councils UK (RCUK) Announces Proposed Position on Access to Research Outputs on 28 June 2005.
• The University of Bremen, Germany signs the Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies on 5 July 2005.
• L'Université de Lyon 2 proposes an Institutional Self-Archiving Requirement on 22 July 2005.
• 64 Italian universities have signed the Berlin Declaration as of 25 July 2005. (Let us hope that they will also soon sign the Dichiarazione di Impegno Istituzionale per l'Accesso Aperto to serve as a model for other universities worldwide.)
• L'Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer signs the Registry of Institutional OA Self-Archiving Policies on 27 July 2005.
• Universities UK supports calls for web access to research results on 8 September 2005.
• Fellows of the Royal Society Open Letter on 7 December 2005.
• 4 Swiss universities have signed the Berlin Declaration as of 23 January 2006. (Let us hope that they will also soon sign the Registrierung von Einrichtungen, die eine institutionelle Verpflichtung für die Open Access-Selbstarchivierung unterzeichnet wollen to serve as a model for other universities worldwide.)

Press Coverage

• "The bottom line on open access" John Lorinc, University Affairs 1 March 2006
  « Le point sur le libre accès » John Lorinc, Affaires Universitaires 1 mars 2006.
• "Swiss scientists sign up to open access" Swissinfo 2 February, 2006.
• "The Impact of Electronic Publishing" John Savarese, Campus Technology Magazine 1 January, 2006.
• "Fight over 'open access' looming" Anna Salleh, ABC News Online 24 November 2005.
• "Society urges caution over open-access publishing" Polly Curtis, Guardian: Education 24 November 2005.
• "Open access to research worth £1.5bn a year" Lucy Sherriff, The Register 16 September 2005.
• "Open access failings 'cost UK £1.5bn'" Jimmy Leach, Guardian: Education 16 September 2005.
• "£1.5 billion lost annually in potential return on British science" Joyce Lewis, University of Southampton ECS Press Release, 14 September 2005.
• "Learned societies argue open access depletes research funds" Research Fortnight, 14 September 2005. [See also my critique of the above article.]
• "Open access to research - but at what cost?" Belinda Isaac, IC Wales, 14 September 2005. [See also Peter Suber's critique of the above article.]
• "Call for free access to research" BBC News 7 September 2005.
• "Results of publicly funded research should be available to all, says web creator" Zosia Kmietowicz , British Medical Journal 3 September 2005.
• "The infrastructure is there: time to populate" Vanessa Spedding, Research Information July/August 2005.
• "ALPSP and academics fight it out over Research Councils UK IR rules" Mark Chillingworth, Information World Review 31 August 2005.
• "Critiques and rebuttals continue in UK open access debate" Cordis News 31 August 2005.
• "Scientists reignite open access debate" Clive Cookson, Science Editor Financial Times 31 August 2005.
• "Publishers make last stand against open access" Donald MacLeod, Education Guardian 30 August 2005.
• "Publish university science for free, urges web creator" Richard Wray, The Guardian 30 August 2005.
• Open Access Initiativen für freien Informationszugang Ina Zwerger, OE1 WebRadio 1 August 2005.
• Drei Wege führen ... zum freien Wissen? Wissenschaftliches Publizieren im Umbruch Volker Weinl, Spektrumdirekt 8 July 2005.
• Research councils back free online access Donald McLeod The Observer 29 June 2005.
• Funding aid for open access Richard Wray, The Guardian, Wednesday 29 June 2005.
• University of Southampton Press Release: New JISC international study by Swan & Brown (KeyPerspectives Inc.) demonstrates worldwide readiness for Open Access mandate. Reported at International Conference on Policies and Strategies for Open Access to Scientific Information Beijing, China June 22-24, 2005
  
• Wissenschafter propagiert freien Zugang zu Wissen mittels "self-archiving": "Open Access" statt teurer Lektüre. Wiener Zeitung 17 June 2005
• Entretien avec Peter Suber INIST Libre Accès à l'information scientifique et technique 20 April 2005 (English version)
• Ein Guru auf dem 'Grünen Weg' Udo Seifert-Fauti Duz Magazin 3(24) March 2005.
• Démocratiser l'information scientifique. Marilyse Hamelin, Le Devoir (Québec) 26 March 2005.
• Open access archiving: an idea whose time has come? David Dickson, SciDev Net 7 March 2005 (also in Europa European Commission Research Headlines, and New Brain Frames ).
• Academics thrash out open access details. Donald MacLeod, The Guardian (UK) 2 March 2005.
• Keystroke strategy for open access. Richard Wray, "The Guardian (UK) 1 March 2005.
• Richard Poynder's blog item http://poynder.blogspot.com/2005/03/time-to-walk-talk.html
• Academics take the initiative in open access debate. Cordis News article (built from other sources)
• Communiqué de presse: Vers un accès libre aux résultats de la recherche? Le CNRS, l'Inserm, l'Inra et l'Inria créent des archives institutionnelles pour les chercheurs. (English translation)
• "Berlin3 was one of the most important OA meetings in a long time." Open Access News, Peter Suber.
• Berlin 3 meeting concludes with recommendation on paving the way to Open Access. HERO (Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the United Kingdom)
• Original ECS press release: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/686
• Original Southampton University press release: http://www.soton.ac.uk/Press/PressReleases/Name,5548,en.php

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