<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 5:53 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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>JV: "the definition of OA... is being changed... instead of any OA achievements</div></div></blockquote><div class="im">
<blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>being measured against the goal that has been set"</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>The 2002 BOAI definition was refined in 2008 to name its two constituents:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/newsletter/08-02-08.htm#gratis-libre" target="_blank">http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/newsletter/08-02-08.htm#gratis-libre</a></div></div></div></blockquote>
<div><br>This statement is simply wrong.<br><br>The linked resource is written by Peter Suber alone. He uses the pronoun "I" throughout much of the mail. I applaud his efforts to describe the situation. (I am less than happy with the term "libre" which does not correspond to usage elsewhere and is at best confusing. But since it can apparently mean almost removal of any condition, no matter how minor, it has very limited use).<br>
<br>At the end Peter Suber makes it clear he is NOT "refining BOAI". He says <br>(<a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/08/greengold-oa-and-gratislibre-oa.html">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/08/greengold-oa-and-gratislibre-oa.html</a> )<br>
<br><span class="rss:item"><b>I'm [PS] not proposing a change in the BBB
definition</b>, and I haven't retreated an inch in my support for it. I'm
simply proposing vocabulary to help us talk unambiguously about two
species of free online access.</span> [PMR's emphasis]<br><br>P.<br clear="all"></div></div><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>
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