<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Jan Velterop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:velterop@gmail.com" target="_blank">velterop@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">The definition of Open Access in the BOAI:<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>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.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<br>The group that we have helped set up @ccess at <a href="http://access.okfn.org/">http://access.okfn.org/</a> 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.<br>
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</div></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069<br>