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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>European Commission has adopted the BOAI
definition for years now (at least in 2007) see for example
<A
href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/open-access-pilot-in-ec-ppt_en.pdf">http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/open-access-pilot-in-ec-ppt_en.pdf</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">In a<FONT
size=2 face=Arial> recent document </FONT></FONT> <A
href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.topic&id=1294&lang=1">http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.topic&id=1294&lang=1</A>
, the definition of Open Access is the following : </FONT><FONT size=2
face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">'Open Access' refers to the
practice of granting free Internet access to research articles" </FONT></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hélène Bosc<BR>Open Access to Scientific
Communication <BR><A
href="http://open-access.infodocs.eu/">http://open-access.infodocs.eu/</A></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=pm286@cam.ac.uk href="mailto:pm286@cam.ac.uk">Peter Murray-Rust</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=goal@eprints.org
href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">Global Open Access List (Successor of
AmSci)</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:26
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [GOAL] Re: The bibliometrics of
OA</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>Warning: I shall get shouted down for this post.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Stevan Harnad <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk"
target=_blank>harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">OA means free online access.
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<DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>When and where and by whom was this
decided? It is incompatible with the BBB definitions.<BR><BR>One of the
problems of "Open Access" as a movement is that the terms used (in the period
after BBB) are so poorly defined as to be essentially meaningless -
Humpty-Dumpty (" "When <I>I</I> use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in
rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more
nor less."). <BR><BR>P.<BR><BR clear=all></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>
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