[Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

[Kat Walsh]

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

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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