I am pleased to announce the start of a volunteer-based campaign aimed at obtaining less restrictive copyright agreements on scientific works. Our goal is to obtain copyright agreements that, while leaving to the publishers full commercial rights, grant authors the possibility of freely distributing their work for non-commercial purposes. For example, everyone should be allowed to post their own work on the web. It should be allowed to create databases of scientific papers, provided no fees are requested to access the papers. We feel that imposing restrictions on these activities is causing damage to science.
Some publishers already adopt science-friendly policies.
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