[GOAL] Re: The bibliometrics of OA

[Hélène.Bosc]

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 <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
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  Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
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