European Commission has adopted the BOAI definition for years now (at least in 2007) see for example http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/open-access-pilot-in-ec-ppt_en.pdf
In a recent document http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.topic&id=1294&lang=1 , the definition of Open Access is the following : 'Open Access' refers to the practice of granting free Internet access to research articles" Hélène Bosc Open Access to Scientific Communication http://open-access.infodocs.eu/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Murray-Rust To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:26 AM Subject: [GOAL] Re: The bibliometrics of OA Warning: I shall get shouted down for this post. On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Stevan Harnad <[email protected]> wrote: OA means free online access. When and where and by whom was this decided? It is incompatible with the BBB definitions. One of the problems of "Open Access" as a movement is that the terms used (in the period after BBB) are so poorly defined as to be essentially meaningless - Humpty-Dumpty (" "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."). P. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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