[GOAL] Fred Friend on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

[Richard Poynder]

The third Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access has
just been published This time the questions are answered by Fred Friend.

By profession a librarian, Friend has long been an energetic and committed
advocate for Open Access. He is also one of the small group of people who
attended the 2001 meeting that led to the Budapest Open Access Initiative
(BOAI <http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read> ). It was at that
meeting that the term Open Access was coined, and a definition
<http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read>  of OA agreed. Friend has
also worked for the UK organisation JISC, and has recently undertaken
consultancy work for the European Commission and for Knowledge Exchange.

Earlier contributors to this series include palaeontologist Mike Taylor
<http://poynder.blogspot.pt/2013/07/open-access-where-are-we-what-still.html
>  and cognitive scientist Stevan Harnad
<http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/where-are-we-what-still-needs-to-be.h
tml> . 

 

The interview can be read here:
http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/fred-friend-on-state-of-open-access.ht
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