Díaz Borges, Bladimir

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Revista Científica Electrónica Ciencias Gerenciales /  
Scientific e-journal of Management Science 
PPX 200502ZU1950 / ISSN1856-1810 /  By Fundación Unamuno / Venezuela  
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Berlin Declaration on Open Access to 
Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities 
Oct. 2003, Berlin 
 
Preface 
The Internet has fundamentally changed the practical and economic 
realities of distributing scientific knowledge and cultural heritage. For the 
first time ever, the Internet now offers the chance to constitute a global 
and interactive representation of human knowledge, including cultural 
heritage and the guarantee of worldwide access. 
We, the undersigned, feel obliged to address the challenges of the 
Internet as an emerging functional medium for distributing knowledge. 
Obviously, these developments will be able to significantly modify the 
nature of scientific publishing as well as the existing system of quality 
assurance. 
In accordance with the spirit of the Declaration of the Budapest Open 
Acess Initiative, the ECHO Charter and the Bethesda Statement on 
Open Access Publishing, we have drafted the Berlin Declaration to 
promote the Internet as a functional instrument for a global scientific 
knowledge base and human reflection and to specify measures which 
research policy makers, research institutions, funding agencies, 
libraries, archives and museums need to consider.  
Goals 
Our mission of disseminating knowledge is only half complete if the 
information is not made widely and readily available to society. New 
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possibilities of knowledge dissemination not only through the classical 
form but also and increasingly through the open access paradigm via 
the Internet have to be supported. We define open access as a 
comprehensive source of human knowledge and cultural heritage that 
has been approved by the scientific community.  
In order to realize the vision of a global and accessible representation of 
knowledge, the future Web has to be sustainable, interactive, and 
transparent. Content and software tools must be openly accessible and 
compatible. 
Definition of an Open Access Contribution  
Establishing open access as a worthwhile procedure ideally requires the 
active commitment of each and every individual producer of scientific 
knowledge and holder of cultural heritage. Open access contributions 
include original scientific research results, raw data and metadata, 
source materials, digital representations of pictorial and graphical 
materials and scholarly multimedia material. 
Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions: 
1. The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to 
all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a 
license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work 
publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital 
medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution 
of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the 
mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible 
use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to 
make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use. 
2. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, 
including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an 
appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus 
published) in at least one online repository using suitable 
technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is 
supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly 
society, government agency, or other well-established 
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organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted 
distribution, inter operability, and long-term archiving.  
Supporting the Transition to the Electronic Open Access Paradigm 
Our organizations are interested in the further promotion of the new 
open access paradigm to gain the most benefit for science and society. 
Therefore, we intend to make progress by 
• encouraging our researchers/grant recipients to publish their work 
according to the principles of the open access paradigm.  
• encouraging the holders of cultural heritage to support open 
access by providing their resources on the Internet.  
• developing means and ways to evaluate open access 
contributions and online-journals in order to maintain the 
standards of quality assurance and good scientific practice.  
• advocating that open access publication be recognized in 
promotion and tenure evaluation.  
• advocating the intrinsic merit of contributions to an open access 
infrastructure by software tool development, content provision, 
metadata creation, or the publication of individual articles.  
We realize that the process of moving to open access changes the 
dissemination of knowledge with respect to legal and financial aspects. 
Our organizations aim to find solutions that support further development 
of the existing legal and financial frameworks in order to facilitate 
optimal use and access.  
Governments, universities, research institutions, funding agencies, 
foundations, libraries, museums, archives, learned societies and 
professional associations who share the vision expressed in the Berlin 
Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and 
Humanities are therefore invited to join the signatories that have already 
signed the Declaration.  


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