Feminist Technoscience Blog

Already in 2003 the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities was launched at an international conference with an understanding as

The Internet has fundamentally changed the practical and economic realities of distributing scientific knowledge and cultural heritage. For the first time ever, the Internet now offers the chance to constitute a global and interactive representation of human knowledge, including cultural heritage and the guarantee of worldwide access.

We, the undersigned, feel obliged to address the challenges of the Internet as an emerging functional medium for distributing knowledge. Obviously, these developments will be able to significantly modify the nature of scientific publishing as well as the existing system of quality assurance.

In accordance with the spirit of the Declaration of the Budapest Open Acess Initiative, the ECHO Charter and the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, we have drafted the Berlin Declaration to promote the Internet as a functional instrument for a global scientific knowledge base and human reflection and to specify measures which research policy makers, research institutions, funding agencies, libraries, archives and museums need to consider.

Annually follow up conferences have since then taken place. This I learned when International Journal of Feminist Technoscience was introduced at the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research 080123. I wonder if and how the issue of open per review has been considered in the context of these conferences. Anyone who knows?