[GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Jan Velterop <velterop at gmail.com> wrote:

> The definition of Open Access in the BOAI:
>
> By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the
> public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute,
> print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for
> indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful
> purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those
> inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint
> on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this
> domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work
> and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
>
>
> Signed by Stevan as well. But declared not valid anymore by him,
> apparently, or at least not a guide anymore to what Open Access is and
> should be.
>

And I support Jan's analysis. Every potentially useful term in this domain
has been made useless by sloppy usage. It leads to the lack of critical
thinking shown in many of the discussions on this list - if you don't agree
what you are talking about it's difficult to be clear.

The group that we have helped set up @ccess at
http://access.okfn.org/draws a line at BOAI. Since many come from a
scientific / computing
background many feel that the use of "libre" to mean more-or-less anything
is particularly misleading.

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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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