Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
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The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities is a major international statement on open access / access to knowledge. It emerged in 2003 from a conference on open access hosted in Berlin
by the Max Planck Society
. Organizations that commit to implementing this definition of open access can sign on to the declaration. As of October 2007, more than 240 scientific organizations had signed the declaration. By 24 October 2011, 324 organizations had signed the declaration.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
by the Max Planck Society
Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes publicly funded by the federal and the 16 state governments of Germany....
. Organizations that commit to implementing this definition of open access can sign on to the declaration. As of October 2007, more than 240 scientific organizations had signed the declaration. By 24 October 2011, 324 organizations had signed the declaration.