A September 9 report from the European Parliament examines the EU's first year under the policy of public access to government documents. It finds that the public has access to 68% of Commission documents, 89.1% of Council documents, and 98.7% of Parliament documents. The report also criticizes a handful of practices that hinder public access to government documents --such as not disclosing how national delegations voted, not recording meetings on anti-terrorism measures, and not uniting the many online repositories of government documents. (Thanks to QuickLinks.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/21/2003 05:14:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
