On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:19 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Chess Pie derby_pie@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-acc...
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