[GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access

[Andrew A. Adams]

Jan Velterop wrote:
> there is scant reason to overcome those [technical difficulties] for
> so-called OA articles if text-mining is not allowed.

This has to be one of the most ridiculous statements I've seen anyone make on 
this list. The vast majority of scholars and scientists want and need to read 
articles. Text mining of the corpus is an interesting and potentially useful 
new tool but the main tool for academics and other readers of the journal 
literature is their own eyes and minds. Look at the term "open access". What 
is the principle noun here? Access. Nothing else, just access. Without access 
nothing else can follow. Indeed this access, by humans quickly and simply for 
their own reading and understanding, is what is needed by all and all this is 
needed by most. Let us first grasp that, rather than trying to solve all the 
problems at once.


-- 
Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/