Intentions of the Denton Declaration, a project initiated by Open Acces @ UNT, of the University of North Texas are:

• A culture of openness in research.
• A federated model of archiving data to enable discoverability, transparency, and open access.
• A robust and sustainable funding regime for research data management infrastructure (technical, policy, and human resources).
• The development and adoption of metadata standards for research data.
• Long-term access to data that supports published research outputs.
• Support for researchers in negotiations with publishers to allow open access to research in repositories.
• Recognition of researchers’ intellectual property in data and scholarly research outputs.