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The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities is a statement emerging from a conference on open access hosted by the Max Planckk Society in Berlin, in 2003. This is considered one of the major international statements on open access. Organizations indicate their support for, and commitment to, implementing open access according to the definition developed in Berlin, through signing this declaration. Open access (OA) is scholarly, scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article]s, made freely available to anyone, anywhere over the world wide web. ...
Openaccess is the subject of much discussion amongst academics, librarians, university administrators, and government officials at the moment.
Openaccess includes both the authors' general agreement to a work's free distribution and the implementation of a suitable (technical) infrastructure that allows for such a distribution.
Openaccess to scholarly research is important to the public, for a number of reasons.
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