IFLA -- Keep Open Access Open: IFLA signs on to open letter

Repositories are financed neither to take on the burden of buying in filter technologies (which risk declaring legitimate uses of works illegal), nor to bear the legal responsibility for mistakes by researchers. If these European proposals pass, open access in Europe and around the world will suffer. The EU’s previously strong record on promoting open access will be damaged.

IFLA has therefore signed onto an open letter, calling on Members of the European Parliament to reject these proposals, and so make sure that Open Access remains open in Europe.