Gary,
About half a year before the BOAI meeting in December of 2001, in the early
summer of 2001, BioMed Central already used the term on its web site ("BioMed
Central's unshakeable commitment to open access."). And ever since. See Wayback
Machine 9 July 2001:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010709143907/http://www.biomedcentral.com/.
Best,
Jan Velterop
On 7 Aug 2012, at 00:29, Omega Alpha | Open Access wrote:
> Greetings. Does anyone know who/when first used the phrase "open access" to
> refer to toll free publication and/or access to scholarly literature, though
> not necessarily yet as a technical term?
>
> Could this be a candidate? I'm reading the transcript of Stevan Harnad's
> presentation: "Implementing Peer review on the Net: Scientific Quality
> Control in Scholarly Electronic Journals" in the Proceedings of the 1993
> International Conference on Refereed Electronic Journals, 1-2 October1993.
> Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 1994, 8.1-8.14, and come across the
> following excerpt:
>
> "Enter anonymous ftp ('file transfer protocol'--a means of retrieving
> electronic files interactively). The paper chase proceeds at its usual tempo
> while an alternative means of distributing first preprints and then reprints
> is implemented electronically. An electronic draft is stored in a 'public'
> electronic archive at the author's institution from which anyone in the world
> can retrieve at any time….The reader can now retrieve the paper for himself,
> instantly, and without ever needing to bother the author, from anywhere in
> the world where the Internet stretches--which is to say, in principle, from
> any institution of research or higher learning where a fellow-scholar is
> likely to be.
>
> "Splendid, n'est-ce pas? The author-scholar's yearning is fulfilled: open
> access to his work for the world peer community. The reader-scholar's needs
> and hopes are well served: free access to the world scholarly literature (or
> as free as a login on the Internet is to an institutionally affiliated
> academic or researcher)…." (8.4-8.5)
>
> The use here is clearly not yet technical, and yet it has all the earmarks of
> future application. The words "access," "open, "and "free" are used
> repeatedly in the Proceedings, but I was unable to find any the phrase "open
> access" was used elsewhere.
>
> I suppose the next question would be: At what point did this informal and
> (perhaps) coincidental use become formalized into a technical signifier?
>
> Curious and interested.
>
> Gary F. Daught
> Omega Alpha | Open Access
> http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com
> Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology
> oa.openaccess@ gmail.com | @OAopenaccess
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