The declaration was originally issued in Arabic and French, on September 7, 2006, by the participants in the Second Gulf-Maghreb Scientific Congress (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 25-26, 2006).
I believe this is the first Arabic declaration in support of OA and hope it has a wide impact.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/13/2006 11:53:00 AM.
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.
