A resumed session of PrepCom-3 : PrepCom-3A took place in Geneva from 10 to 14 November 2003. Thanks to the Berlin declaration, Open Access can now be considered as the official policy of the key founding states of the European Union : France and Germany. After the disastrous outcome of PrepCom3, this declaration provided, just in time, the help that was really needed to correct the most unfortunate errors commited by a certain governmental delegation. By errors, we mean just simple and plain mistakes commited unwillingly by a few diplomats. Their actions did not reflect the true position of their entities.

• Open Ended Informal Consultation ( 20 Oct.2003)
  
  
• Beijing Declaration ( 19 October, TWAS 9th General Conference ) Open Access is not even mentionned.
  
  
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (22 Oct 2003) A great moral boaster !
  
  
• Draft Non-Paper on the Declaration of Principles ( Dated 24 October 2003, if I remember well : published on Oct 26, the Civil Society was invited to give some comments on Oct 28 )
  
  
• Short Comments on the Non-Paper ( 30 October )
  
  
• Civil Society Comments on the Non-Paper (30 October 2003) ( Official Document )
  
  
• Civil Society Letter on the Non-Paper (30 October 2003)
  
  
• Submission (3 Nov 03) as a contribution submitted by accredited NGOs and Civil Society entities of the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (30 June 2003)
  
  
• Visit in Croatia by Dr.Peter Suber, member of the steering committee, meeting with H.E Dr. Diana SIMIC, deputy minister of Science and Technology ( 5 - 8 November 2003 ).
  
  
• Second Draft Non-Paper on the Declaration of Principles ( Official Doc, ( 5 Nov 2003 ) From our perspective, the most significant change by comparison to the first non-paper is that content of the paragraph 25 section B was moved to another section to Section A. Our Common Vision of the Information Society paragraph 6 with a complete re-writing of both paragraphs at the suggestion of the US delegation
  
  
• Submission (7 Nov 03) as a contribution submitted by accredited NGOs and Civil Society entities of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (22 Oct 2003)
  
  
• Soumission (7 Nov 03) de la version fran�aise de la D�claration de Berlin sur le Libre Acc�s � la Connaissance en Sciences exactes, Sciences de la vie, Sciences humaines et sociales (22 Oct 2003)
  
  
• Listed among the contributions submitted by accredited NGOs : : MDPI and ENSTA on behalf of the Scientific Information Working Group of the Declaration known as the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing WSIS/PC-3/C/0184 (dated 06 Nov - published 08 Nov )
  
  
• Listed among the contributions submitted by accredited NGOs : Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities WSIS/PC-3/C/0187 ( English, French ) - (dated 07 Nov - published 10 Nov ) Listed among the
  
  
• Proposition of modifications to the delegations (10 Nov) ( posted to electronic-commons.net by Dr. Jeffrey - Canadian Delegation )
  
  
• Proposition of modifications to the delegations (Declaration of Principles 11 Nov)
  
  
• Opening of a WIKI server at WSIS-WIKI.ORG for the Scientific Information Group (Declaration of Principles 11 Nov)
  
  
• Proposition of modifications to the delegations (Declaration of Principles 12 Nov)
  
  
• Proposition of modifications to the delegations (Plan of Action 12 Nov)
  
  
• Open access to scientific information : A Civil Society Non-Negotiable Item ( 13 November )
  
  
• Proposition of modifications to the delegations (Declaration of Principles 13 Nov) ACCEPTED !
  
  
• Proposition of rectification and modification to the delegations (Plan of Action 14 Nov)
  
  
• Civil Society Essential Benchmarks for WSIS 10.4 Open access to scientific information (17 Nov )
  
  
• Declaration of Principles ( Latest version, 14 November )
  
  
• Plan of Action ( Latest version, 14 November )
  
  
• Report
  
  
• Pictures