[GOAL] Re: Definition of OA and its Priorities and Obstacles

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Stevan Harnad <harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

> JV:  "the definition of OA... is being changed... instead of any OA
> achievements
>
> being measured against the goal that has been set"
>
>
> The 2002 BOAI definition was refined in 2008 to name its two constituents:
>
> http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/newsletter/08-02-08.htm#gratis-libre
>

This statement is simply wrong.

The linked resource is written by Peter Suber alone. He uses the pronoun
"I" throughout much of the mail. I applaud his efforts to describe the
situation. (I am less than happy with the term "libre" which does not
correspond to usage elsewhere and is at best confusing. But since it can
apparently mean almost removal of any condition, no matter how minor, it
has very limited use).

At the end Peter Suber makes it clear he is NOT "refining BOAI". He says
(
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/08/greengold-oa-and-gratislibre-oa.html)

*I'm [PS]  not proposing a change in the BBB definition*, and I haven't
retreated an inch in my support for it.  I'm simply proposing vocabulary to
help us talk unambiguously about two species of free online access. [PMR's
emphasis]

P.

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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