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[drf:2677] Re: The Birth of the Open Access Movement



みなさま、

> 明日はオープン・アクセス20周年記念日だそうです。

すいませんが、12周年でした。しかし、ハーナッドはなにやら文句をいってい
ますね。

土屋
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Date:         Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:49:38 -0400
From:         Stevan Harnad <amsciforum @ xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject:      Re: The Birth of the Open Access Movement
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I hate to have to throw a blanket on this 12th birthday parade, but the
birth of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)  (a protocol for making online
bibliographic databases -- initially called "archives," later re-baptised
"repositories -- interoperable) in 1999 certainly was *not* the birth of the
Open Access Movement.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/vandesompel-oai/02vandesompel-oai.html

Either the Open Access Movement began (as I prefer to think) in the '80s or
perhaps even the '70s, when (some) researchers first began making their
papers freely accessible online in anonymous FTP archives, or it began with
the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI, 2001) where the term "Open
Access" was first coined (a few months after, just as "Open Archives" was
coined a few months after the Santa Fe meeting).
http://www.soros.org/openaccess

Nothing here to compete in primacy for, however, since the progress of the
OA movement has been dismayingly slow, ever since, and still is, to this
very day.

But it's particularly ironic to see the origins of the OA movement (warts
and all) attributed to OAI when in fact the idea of freeing the refereed
research literature from access toll barriers was very explicitly (and
exceedingly rudely) disavowed by the prime organizer of the three organizers
of the Santa Fe meeting. The archival record for this seems to have
disappeared, but I've saved the two postings from which the following is
excerpted:

*Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:14:30 -0700*
"…someone also forwarded me from the times higher ed supp 12 nov 1999:

*"Harnad, who attended the Santa Fe meeting, said all conference
participants agreed that scientific and scholarly publishing was being 'held
hostage' and **needed to be freed. 'They all felt ... . Most wanted...'"*


"i don't remember anyone saying anything about hostages (though i did miss
the end of the first day) -- isn't it demagoguery to impute words and
sentiments?..."

The rest of the posting expands on these sentiments:

http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/oai1.htm
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/oai2.htm


30 November will also be the 12th anniversary of the last time I ever
exchanged words with the prime organizer in question.

Stevan Harnad
 
 


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