[Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

[phoebe ayers]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Kat Walsh <kat at mindspillage.org> wrote:
> 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

Right! I forgot about that. Thanks, Kat.
-- phoebe