[GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access

[Stevan Harnad]

On Wed, 9 May 2012, Jan Velterop wrote:

> The real issue is to do with usage rights.

Usage rights are moot if you don't have access.

> There may be technical issues to overcome, but there 
> is scant reason to overcome those for so-called OA 
> articles if text-mining is not allowed.

Perhaps the reasons are not so scant for all those 
researchers who are currently denied access 
(irrespective of whether "text-mining is [or is]
not allowed"...).

Stevan Harnad