[GOAL] Re: A bit of advice with regards to the history of the OAmovement

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Constantinescu Nicolaie
<kosson at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> *From:* Constantinescu Nicolaie <kosson at gmail.com>
>> *To:* goal at eprints.org
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:02 PM
>> *Subject:* [GOAL] A bit of advice with regards to the history of the
>> OAmovement
>>
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> Some colleagues here in Romania asked me to put together a very brief
>> evolution path to the moment when „Open Access” came to being.
>> I came up with this design in a very short notice -
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/84345232@N00/7024908289/ . I have taken
>> another look at the timeline (http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline),
>> but I had to look from 10.000 feet.
>> This is what came to be. Although the milestones explanations are in
>> Romanian, all should be pretty self explanatory?!
>>
>> Is there any other big, big, big moment in time that slipped my eye?
>>
>> If you are going back as far as 1969 then I think many people would see
the Free/Open software movement (Stallman, 1986) as creating much of the
background practice and philosophy that went into "Open  Access".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software.


-- 
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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