The May 9 draft of the Access to Knowledge Treaty is now online. This is a wide-ranging treaty covering many topics. All of it is worth a close read, but see especially sections 5-1 and 5-2 on OA. The key provision is 5-2(b): "Members agree that works resulting from government-funded research shall be publicly available at no charge within a reasonable time frame, subject to reasonable exceptions, for example, for classified military research, for patentable discoveries, and for works that generate revenue for the author such as books." (Disclosure: I am participating in the drafting of the treaty.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/11/2005 01:16:00 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.
