[GOAL] Re: The bibliometrics of OA

[Peter Murray-Rust]

Warning: I shall get shouted down for this post.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Stevan Harnad <harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk>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.


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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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