Open Access: Zurück zur Ursprungsidee des Internets, Veranstaltungsbeiträge, Publikationen, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

[From Google's English] "The World Wide Web, the networked world. It provides huge amounts of data freely available. Just for science, this 'open access', ie open access to data and information is of great importance: A quick uncomplicated exchange of information brings together great ideas and facilitates the exchange of information. In one, initiated by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Helmholtz Association Expert Meeting scientists and politicians have discussed how the open access to scientific information should be designed ... It was not until early April, the Cabinet has approved a draft law, which is in favor of the idea of ​​free access to scientific literature and materials. But there are also even within the CDU / CSU parliamentary group controversy, Kretschmer said. Are confronted by words such as 'collective expropriation' if authors fear that the same were lost with the upload of your text on the internet all rights to it.  In this case, the bill calls for an essential secondary exploitation rights for authors. The author of the posts thus receives the right to his post after a period of twelve months from the date of the first publication in a publishing media again on an Internet platform to publicize. This is not only a good opportunity for the scientists to make his ideas to a wider audience, but also justified in the context of financing by the public sector. 'It's the taxpayers who funded our research,' Kretschmer said. 'So he has to say and can and should have access to the research results.'  From the European side, the idea of ​​open access to the agenda is called 'Horizon 2020' followed ... The limits were set, however, the patent protection and privacy, said Professor Horst Stoecker, Vice President of the Helmholtz community.Open Access could only mean 'qualified openness,' he said, so a proven publication of research results does not mean that sensitive information would be disclosed ..."