The SI thematic Working Group was not granted enough time to see included in the observers' contributions recommandations related to the Draft Declaration of Principles. However, all SI WG contributions to the Action Plan have been included, almost verbatim in the Civil Society Observers' contribution.

• Open access to scientific knowledge is an essential human right
• Open access to scientific knowledge is an expression of worldwide solidarity
• Scientific information is a specific information whose availabilty is essential in order to achieve an information-based Open Society
• Scientific publishing models should respect the true intent of scientists which is to make freely available their works and findings.
• Preserve, maintain and augment the scientific public domain.
• Respect and protection of scientific author's rights, whether the author is writing for profit author or unretributed author.
• Scientific information produced by unretributed authors should be freely available
• Availability of scientific information in transition countries is a fundamental condition for a sustainable development, within global inclusion perspective.

• Encourage scientific authors to retain ownership of their intellectual property and not to automatically transfer copyrights to publishers or other intermediaries.
• Encourage Open Access content models whereby the content in digital format is freely available, while paper printed versions or CD burned versions may be sold by institutionnal or commercial channels.
• Encourage publishers to develop Open Access business models whether these models are commercial or not-for-profit.
• Encourage the creation by scientists of not-for-profit Open Acccess Journals
• Encourage existing subscription-based journals to turn to Open Access models.
• Encourage authors to submit their papers to Open Access Journals.
• Encourage authors to write Open Access books and multimedia material for research and education.
• Encourage authors to maintain a personal web page where all their research findings and reports are freely available.
• Recommend the creation of institutional Open Archives at the national and international level.
• Recommend a program funded by by the UN or its agencies of to create a worldwide portal to Open Access journals and Open Access books.
• Recommend the creation of a funding program by the UN ( or its agencies ) to ensure financial support to not-for-profit Open Access Journals.
• Recommend a program funded by by the UN or its agencies of to create a worldwide scientific Open Archive.
• Recommend the creation of a funding program by the UN ( or its agencies ) to provide financial support to the creation and maintenance of institutional Open Access archives.
• Encourage the creation and maintenance of mirrors sites of Open Access contents in institutions belonging to transition countries, in order to save Internet connection costs.
• Recommend a program funded by by the UN or its agencies to distribute free CDs containing Open Access contents to transition countries.
• Recommend that member states should adopt national legislation making compulsory for scientists to deposit their published works in a national or a UN funded worldwide Open Access archive.
• Recommend that member states should adopt national regulations making compulsory for scientists whose research is funded by public agencies or by private foundations to publish in Open Access journals.
• Recommend that databases built with the help of freely available scientific content should be also freely available to all the authors that contributed to its content.
• Databases built with the help of freely available scientific content should be accessible with a reasonnable fee proportionate to the average income in the customer's country.
• Recommend that rules of loans existing in traditional scientific libraries should be extended without hindrance to digital media belonging to online libraries.
• Use of peer to peer technology shall be promoted to share personnal scientific knowledge and preprints, reprints written by scientific unretributed authors.
• Scientific information should be available or at least indexed within a multilingual context.