[BOAI] Bogotà Declaration (English-language edition)

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Paola De Castro, NECOBELAC Project Coordinator.  This is
the English-language edition of the Bogotà Declaration, adopted on November
11, 2010, by the institutional partners in Project NECOBELAC and the
participants in a NECOBELAC training course (Bogotà, November 9-11, 2010).
 For an image scan of the original, with the text in Spanish, Portuguese,
and Italian, as well as English, and the list of original signatories, see
http://www.necobelac.eu/documents/Bogota%20Declaration_4_Languages.pdf .
 --Peter Suber.]


BOGOTÁ DECLARATION

Within the international initiatives promoting the development of global
knowledge, the NECOBELAC project fosters cooperation between Europe, Latin
America and the Caribbean countries to improve the dissemination of
scientific information in public health as well as the quality of life and
population development. This project acts through the organization and
realization of training courses for trainers to improve the production and
quality of scientific documents and increase the visibility and availability
of research results by supporting open access publishing initiatives.

The different experiences of the European and Latin American project
partners form the basis for taking action towards active learning to develop
regional, national and local initiatives and policies in favour of Open
Access.

On November 9-11, 2010, one of the NECOBELAC international training courses
for trainers [Curso internacional de formación de capacitadores
NECOBELAC] took place in Bogotá (Colombia). The project partners
representing European (Italy, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom) and Latin
American (Brazil and Colombia) institutions, together with the participants
on the NECOBELAC training course representing academic and public
health institutions in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico and
Peru, in accordance with the NECOBELAC project objectives, commit themselves
to:

1. Promote the drawing up and enforcement of public policies in favour of
the unlimited availability of scientific output.

2. Promote and support the quality of scientific writing.

3 Promote Open Access to scientific output in their Nations.

Participants on the NECOBELAC training courses commit themselves to
replicating the training experience in the institutions of their countries.
NECOBELAC project partners commit themselves to providing advice and tools
to achieve the above mentioned objectives.

To effectively carry out this project of activity and help transform the
models of disseminating knowledge and information in public health, the
support and cooperation of the European and Latin American and Caribbean
governments and institutions are required, to act in favour of the global
development of knowledge.

Bogotà, November 11, 2011

The NECOBELAC Bogotá Declaration is approved by all partners of the European
project NECOBELAC and signed by the participants of the NECOBELAC training
course for trainers in Bogotá (November 9-11, 2010) coming from instituions
of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru and by the
NECOBELAC partners attending this Course. Participants on the previous
NECOBELAC training courses held in São Paulo (Brasil, April 13-15, 2010) and
in Rome (Italy, October 18-20, 2010) can adhere to this Declaration.
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