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Thursday, May 12, 2005

A proposal for German copyright reform to favor OA

Richard Sietmann, Wissenschaftler fordert: Open Access gehört ins Urheberrecht, Heise Online, May 12, 2005. On a proposal by Gerd Hansen of the Max Planck Institute that researchers with publicly-funded research grants should retain the right to self-archive any resulting journal articles within six months of publication.