Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium

摘要: Abstract : Data and information produced by government-funded, public-interest science is a global public good caught between two different trends. On the one hand, Internet provides valuable new opportunities for overcoming geographic limitations promise of unprecedented open access to research on basis. other there are growing restrictions availability use data arising from privatization commercialization such sources. This countervailing trend undermines traditional scientific cooperative sharing ethos. It diminishes domain goods leads host lost opportunity costs at both national international levels. To address these issues International Council Science (ICSU), United Nations Educational, Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO), U.S. National Academies, Committee Technology (CODATA), Technical Information (ICSTI) jointly organized this symposium, which was held March 10-11, 2003, UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The symposium brought together policy experts managers government academic sectors developed developing countries do following: (1) describe role, value, limits that digital have context research; (2) identify analyze various legal, economic, technological pressures their potential effects (3) review existing proposed approaches preserving promoting technical basis, with particular attention needs countries.