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Budapest Open Access Initiative Aims to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet. Declaration of Havana - Towards Equitable Access to Health Information A statement issued in Havana on April 27, 2001, by the participants in the Second Regional Coordination Meeting of the Virtual Health Library and the Fifth Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information. One of the strongest public statements in support of open access archives philosophy. Declaration of San José - Towards the Virtual Health Library An initiative aiming to construct a digital medium 'as a unified response to our health situation, facilitating wide access to information for the permanent improvement of health of the people'. Electronic Dissemination of Thesis and Dissertations UNESCO is examining the possibilities of formulating an international strategy for creating and disseminating electronic theses and dissertations. Eprints.org Dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. Provides free (GNU) software for self-archiving. For Whom the Gate Tolls? How and why to free the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving, now - a manifesto by Stevan Harnad. Free Online Scholarship Newsletter (FOS) News and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge. Newsletter, forum, FAQ and a comprehensive directory on electronic archives. Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing An internet discussion about scientific and scholarly journals and their future. Stevan Harnad on Free Access Initiatives How to free access to scientific literature: papers by one of the leaders of the open archives initiative. Peter Suber's Guide to the FOS Movement Comprehensive guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship initiative. |
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