Dichiarazione di Berlino - Wikisource

From Google Translate: "The Internet has fundamentally changed the practical and economic realities of distributing scientific knowledge and cultural heritage. For the first time ever, the Internet now offers the chance to constitute a global and interactive instance of human knowledge and cultural heritage and offer the guarantee of universal access.

We, the undersigned, commit ourselves to face the challenges of the Internet as a means of emerging functional for the dissemination of knowledge. We are confident that these developments will be able to have a significant effect both on the nature of scientific publications since the existing system of assessment of scientific quality.

In accordance with the spirit of the Declaration of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the ECHO Charter and the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, we have drafted the Berlin Declaration to promote the Internet as a functional instrument to general scientific knowledge base and human speculation and to indicate the measures that the dominant figures in the research policy, scientific institutions, lenders, libraries, archives and museums need to consider."