What does this prove, pray?
A search in Google Scholar for Open Access and God yields 36,300 results, and
Open Access and the devil 10,600 results.
I share Peter M-R's unhappiness with the term 'libre OA', though maybe for
different reasons. It is tautological: true OA (as we all – including
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Hélène.Bosc hbosc-tcher...@orange.frwrote:
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Peter,
you wrote : I am less than happy with the term libre which does not
correspond to usage elsewhere and is at best confusing
In French we say Les absents ont toujours tort (Absent people are always
wrong) .
So the definition of Open Access as formulated in the BOAI is now no more than
'mortal improvisation', according to Harnad.
What's happening is that for reasons of expediency, the definition of OA (which
didn't represent 'Holy Writ', but an ambitious goal, for the benefit of
science) is being
I will comment on JV and then SH
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Jan Velterop velte...@gmail.com wrote:
So the definition of Open Access as formulated in the BOAI is now no more
than 'mortal improvisation', according to Harnad.
What's happening is that for reasons of expediency, the
On 2012-08-29, at 3:35 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
I have been asking several times for definitions of Open Access. I get no
answers but am flooded with political slogans…
Gratis OA: Free online access
Libre OA: Free online access + various re-use rights (there is no agreement
on which ones,
Thank you for this reply. It contains some answers to some of the
questions. I shall return with comments.
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
JV: the definition of OA... is being changed... instead of any OA
achievements
being measured against the goal that has been set
The 2002 BOAI definition was refined in 2008 to name its two constituents:
http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/newsletter/08-02-08.htm#gratis-libre
For a
Forgive me, but isn't this a bit like trying to define 'freedom' according
to strict criteria?
Like it or not, 'open access' has become a widely used term which, at its
most basic, does indeed just mean free online access to scholarly content.
Further refinements are all very well, but are not
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.ukwrote:
JV: the definition of OA... is being changed... instead of any OA
achievements
being measured against the goal that has been set
The 2002 BOAI definition was refined in 2008 to name its two constituents:
