Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing

Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
This document begins with a definition of open access publishing - "to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly" - and contains statements from three groups endorsing the concept at the Meeting on Open Access Publishing at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland. More...