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

- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:01:19 +0900 (JST)

    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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