** Apologies for cross-posting **

The 3rd international conference on implementing the Berlin Declaration
on Open Acess will take place in Southampton February 28 - March 1 2005.

    http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/

The full programme will appear very shortly at that site.

Contact details for the programme:

        Dr. Hans F Hoffmann
        CERN
        CH 1211 Genève 23
        Tel. +41 22 7675458/2849
        Fax  +41 22 7823011
        email: hans.falk.hoffmann@cern.ch

Temporary contact for the local host at Southampton:

        Dr. Steve Hitchcock
        sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Prior Amsci Threads:

    "Berlin Declaration on Open Access" (Oct 2003)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3091.html

    "Draft letter for institutions to sign
    to implement Berlin Declaration" (Dec 2003)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3304.html

    "May 12 CERN meeting on implementing
    the Berlin Declaration" (May 2004)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3750.html

    "Next follow-up Open Access Conference
    or workshop in Southampton/UK" (Nov 2004)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4149.html

AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing
open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004)
is available at:
    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
        To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
        Post discussion to:
    american-scientist-open-access-forum@amsci.org

UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output,
please describe your policy at:
        http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php

UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
    BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access
            journal whenever one exists.
            http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals
    BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable
            toll-access journal and also self-archive it.
            http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
    http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml