[GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access

Peter Murray-Rust pm286 at cam.ac.uk
Wed May 9 13:28:23 BST 2012


On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Stevan Harnad <harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

> A provisional definition, of a new possibility and vision,
> crafted by a team of well-meaning but not omniscient
> visionaries at the time -- and since  updated in keeping
> with reality and practical experience.
>
> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/442-guid.html
>
>
> This states:

   - *Because there are many different permission barriers to remove, there
   many different degrees or kinds of libre OA.  Gratis OA is just one thing,
   but libre OA is a range of things.   *

Where can I find definitions or examples of Libre OA? Without those it is
effectively meaningless.

P.


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