Open Access Conference Working group Acceptance

1
Dissemination of theBerlin Declaration

• The signatories should pro-activly disseminate
  the Berlin Declaration together with examples
  from their own achievements, as well as with
  policy statements strengthening the Berlin
  Declaration on specific points.

2
Formulation of specific Open Access policies

• Within the next 6 months, the signatories should
  develop Open Access policies
• (model contracts, reward O.A.provision etc.)
  and evaluation (revisit impact factor etc.).

3
A joint publication and evaluation strategy

• In order to strengthen the role of Open Access
  provision in career assessment and evaluation the
  signatories should work towards a joint
  publication and evaluation strategy.

4
Repositories for self-archiving

• The signatories should develop in the next 6
  months plans for establishing repositories for
  providing immediate open-access through
  self-archiving as well as technologies for
  ensuring their continued use and useability.

5
Model workflows for and model paths towards Open
Access

• The signatories should facilitate the transition
  towards Open access by developing, within 6
  months, procedures for O.A. provision and
  strategies for the transition from traditional
  towards O.A. publications.

6
Infrastructure for innovation

• The signatories should create facilities
  allowing their scientists to explore innovative
  forms of disseminating knowledge through Open
  Access provision.

7
Temptations

• The agents should be tempted to take part in
  Open Access publications by
• creating showcases
• giving opportunities to pioneers
• offering services.

8
Incentives for creating more Open Access venues

• The signatories should stimulate the creation of
  new Open Access journals by encouraging their
  scientists and making available dedicated funds.
• They should also stimulate the other means of
  providing open access (self-archiving).

9
Reward mechanisms

• The Open Access policies to be established
  should comprise rewards for Open Access provision
  (by either of the two means).

10
Take over publication charges

• The signatories should immediately decide to
  take care of the publication charges for Open
  Access journals to which their scientists submit
  contributions.

11
A birds eye view for the agents

• Scholars, librarians etc. have to be informed
  about the overall pre-conditions and
  consequences of Open Access provision.
• In particular they should be familiarized with
  the advantages of the Open Access and the
  disadvantages of the traditional model.