On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Kat Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:19 PM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Chess Pie <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
