On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:19 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Chess Pie
<derby_pie(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Looks like a braindead law.
Does the foundation have a specific position on OpenAccess?
The WMF as an entity doesn't have a specific position/policy, though
in general we are squarely in the camp of OA supporters; but as Daniel
noted the Research Committee is working on an OA policy for funded
research studies, which I'm quite pleased about:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Areas_of_interest/Open-ac…
Actually we do have an official position--we are signatories to the
Berlin Declaration on Open Access:
http://oa.mpg.de/berlin-prozess/berliner-erklarung/
which states that its supporters believe in the importance of open
access and work to promote it (the full document is actually pretty
nice).
-Kat
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