Declaration of Mexico

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This document was issued at the close of the Fifth International Conference on University Libraries, "Open access: an alternative of access to scientific information" (Mexico City, October 26 - 27, 2006). --Peter Suber.]

The Declaration of Mexico

Informed and aware that "guaranteeing that research results may be freely available for everyone is the best way of maximizing their usefulness" and that "Open access is good for science, for the research community, and for humanity" we who sign permit ourselves to recommend to all Latin American institutions, and especially to our national governments, the adoption of Open Access policies and the inclusion of Open Access resources in the mechanisms of institutional evaluation of academic and scientific performance, as a means of stimulating the free generation of knowledge.

This group promises to create and maintain a network of research, exchange, promotion, diffusion, digital preservation and formation of personnel in the technological tools required to carry out the stated mission as well as the creation of a union catalog of contributions. We invite and open the doors so that all institutions may join this effort signing this declaration.

In Mexico City, Mexico, Friday, October 27, 2006.

Agents of the Declaration:

Of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Alberto Castro Thompson
Of the Ibero American Science & Technology Education Consortium, Henry Jerez
Of the São Paulo State University, Mariangela Fujita
Of the Colombian Ministry of National Education, Alvaro Arias
Of the University of the Andes, Venezuela, Jacinto Dávila
Of Emory University, USA, Richard Luce