Universities in Ukraine, Ghana, Ethiopia sign the Berlin Declaration

Three more institutions in EIFL partner countries –  National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy (Ukraine), University of Ghana and Jimma University (Ethiopia) – joined over 370 leading international research, scientific, and cultural institutions from around the world that have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and the Humanities.

The Declaration builds on the significant progress of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, calling for open access to knowledge in the humanities as well as in the sciences. It also moves beyond the scope of primary literature, indicating, “open access contributions include original scientific research results, raw data and metadata, source materials, digital representations of pictorial and graphical materials and scholarly multimedia material.”

We encourage institutions from EIFL partner countries to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and the Humanities. See more information about EIFL partner institutions that have already signed the Berlin Declaration this year and last year here and here.

See Berlin 10 Call to Action for more information on the Berlin Declaration and how to sign it.