[GOAL] Open Access Understanding

[Constantinescu Nicolaie]

Dear collegues,

The moment has come when all the thoughts, ideas, the initiatives and
the best experiences concerning Open Access to find a streamlined
expression capable to set in motion a vector for actions in Romania.
To this purpose, The Understanding of Open Access has been launched.
It's a document with a double significance: “understanding” as a
consensual agreement among the signatories and “understanding” meaning
a good apprehension of the concepts behind it.

What sparked this document?
Kosson community members shown a great interest and involvement for
the valorisation of the electronic information resources in Open
Access regime since 2005. From that moment on, a long path was
followed in translating, studying and promoting the concepts and the
models for the Open Access. In the year 2010, the Romanian Library
Association adopted a Motion on Open Access during the national
conference.
This important moment needed to be elevated in order to project
concrete actions in the future and this led to this programatic and
pragmatic document expressing the will and understanding of the
Romanian stakeholders.

Why it needs your support and where to promote it?
The first answer springs out of the need to clearly state the fact it
is not only necessary to have some knowledge about Open Access, but to
understand what this means. This difference in semantics it is
necessary now more than ever when many things seems to dilute and
apparently are being mangled in many other matters of concern.
Another answer is the need for more clarity in all it has to be done
in the future. To this purpose the document points to concrete
objectives.

What is the purpose of the understanding?
It will lead to a better consolidation of the members actions around
the community goals and offers solid guidelines to the knowledge gains
and further development opportunities.
It offers a clear fixed mark for the future of the Open Access in
Romania and Europe at large.
It constitutes the base for future actions and activities tightly
linked to Open Access advocacy in Romania.
It will be the measure for future calibration of our performances as
the objectives will be counted in solid facts for the Romanian society
and for the world at large.

I would like to thank to many of you from whom I had the privilege to
learn so much and I would like to invite you to stay close to our
efforts in the future with the same kind helping hand as you did up to
this moment.

Welcome to our start: startad.kosson.ro

-- 
Constantinescu Nicolaie
Information Architect
http://www.kosson.ro