Blog UNLP institutional repository - SEDICI

"In May 2004, under the II International Symposium on Digital Libraries, held in Campinas (Brazil), members LibLink Initiative ISTEC signed a joint statement in support of open access policies. The text set out in Blog Peter Suber , counts among its signatories to Marisa De Giusti , representative of the UNLP in SIBD II and director of PrEBi-SEDICI (UNLP), as well as the LibLink Initiative ISTEC. Sometimes it is interesting to stop exercising, look back and see the path, the achievements and the challenges that lie ahead. In this sense, it is also interesting to bring up a great achievement for Open Access as it was and remains the Resolution 78/11 of the UNLP, why all graduate thesis must be compulsory sent to SEDICI, as a effective way to contribute to the socialization of knowledge and reward those who financed the research. Then we leave the full text of this joint statement of 2004: 'We, the members of the Initiative Liaison ISTEC Digital Libraries recognize the power of open access to more affordable research and scientific information, and stimulating innovation, research, and economic development. Therefore, we voted to encourage all agencies Brazilian research funding, the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) and university administrations to study and implement Open Access policies that promote systems based on the principles Declaration of Open Access Berlin. It is especially important to ensure that government-funded research reaches the public domain within one year after its publication. We also believe that this is an appropriate and symbolic celebration of the 50th anniversary of IBICT. Therefore ...'"