On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Constantinescu Nicolaie <kosson at gmail.com>wrote:
> > *From:* Constantinescu Nicolaie <kosson at gmail.com> >> *To:* goal at eprints.org >> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:02 PM >> *Subject:* [GOAL] A bit of advice with regards to the history of the >> OAmovement >> >> Dear friends, >> >> Some colleagues here in Romania asked me to put together a very brief >> evolution path to the moment when ?Open Access? came to being. >> I came up with this design in a very short notice - >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/84345232 at N00/7024908289/ . I have taken >> another look at the timeline (http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline), >> but I had to look from 10.000 feet. >> This is what came to be. Although the milestones explanations are in >> Romanian, all should be pretty self explanatory?! >> >> Is there any other big, big, big moment in time that slipped my eye? >> >> If you are going back as far as 1969 then I think many people would see the Free/Open software movement (Stallman, 1986) as creating much of the background practice and philosophy that went into "Open Access". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20120330/79143b1a/attachment.html
