On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Jan Velterop <[email protected]> wrote: The definition of Open Access in the BOAI: By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
Signed by Stevan as well. But declared not valid anymore by him, apparently, or at least not a guide anymore to what Open Access is and should be. And I support Jan's analysis. Every potentially useful term in this domain has been made useless by sloppy usage. It leads to the lack of critical thinking shown in many of the discussions on this list - if you don't agree what you are talking about it's difficult to be clear. The group that we have helped set up @ccess at http://access.okfn.org/ draws a line at BOAI. Since many come from a scientific / computing background many feel that the use of "libre" to mean more-or-less anything is particularly misleading. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ] _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
