Open-Access: Es wird Zeit, alle alles lesen zu lassen - Campus - Beruf und Chance - FAZ.NET

From Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Rector at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Google's English: "The open access debate is not in the circle of European research universities just arrived: It is now also the subject of a strategy paper (LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access), which is to be presented shortly to the public. Twenty-one top European universities in 2002 to the League of European Research Universities (short LERU) connected. These include universities such as Oxford and Cambridge, Leiden, Leuven and Lund, as well as three German universities: Freiburg, Heidelberg and Munich. It is not primarily about copyright and exploitation rights or alleged publishing monopolies, but of the unlimited, anywhere access to scientific knowledge worldwide...."