[CivicAccess-discuss] The Access Principle and other resources

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

This morning I came across a blog post, entitle "Does Information want to
be free?" (
http://historycompass.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/does-information-want-to-be-free/)
not written by computer scientists or engineers but by historians!

The principle for open access of scholarly works comes from academics and
librarians.  Via this article I came across the following excellent
resources:

   - *Enhancing the Debate on Open Access:* A joint statement by the
   International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and the
   International Publishers Association (
   http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/documents/enhancing-the-debate-on-open-access_final-20090505.pdf)
   via (
   http://www.ifla.org/news/joint-iflaipa-statement-enhancing-the-debate-on-open-access
   )
   - *Yale Access to knowledge (A2K) Conference on Access to Knowledge and
   Human Rights* (http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/a2k4.htm)
   - *Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and
   Humanities* (http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html)
   - Open Access Book - *The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to
   Research and Scholarship* by John Willinsky, a free PDF downloadable book
   from MIT Press (
   http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10611&ttype=2)

(I have all of these tagged in my delicious with civicaccess or coacid).
--
Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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