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 Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Brown, Alexander, Springer US
alexander.br...@springer-sbm.com wrote:
*Contact: *Eric Merkel-Sobotta | tel.: +49 30 827 87 54 34 |
eric.merkel-sobo...@springer.com**
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*Springer now publishing Open Access books*
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How about Open Access to the samples of academic research samples in the
various chemistry departments across he world? In general these are not
adequately indexed, or indexed at all. The US Molecular Libraries Program
[MLP] and the pan-European Innovative Medicines Initiative [IMI] are
Sridhar
are you on the a2k (access to knowledge) list? it’s not specific to those
topics but is actually wider in scope looking across all issues related to
intellectual property versus what some would call ‘the openness paradigm’.
arif
From: Sridhar Gutam
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:50
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.
--
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:
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