[Open-access] Open Access Initiative - meeting notes, names and moving forwards

[Mike Taylor]

Without proposing an actual group name, I notice that the term "public
access" has gained some currency -- for example, the NIH mandate is
called its "public access policy".  Is that better or worse?  I like
that "public" makes it explicit that we are not just talking about
access for academics.  But I have the sense that it may be a weaker
term.  Could we perhaps take advantage of this alternative terminology
by position the term "public access" as a broad concept, and "open
access" as the CC-BY subset of that?

-- Mike.




On 2 February 2012 14:42, Björn Brembs <b.brembs at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Laura Newman wrote:
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>> 1) We need to decide on a name in order to move forwards. Send your
>> suggestions to the list, and I will create a Doodle poll of options.
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> I suggest Universal Open Acces or uOA, to make clear that
> we're just an organisation that's meant to build on the
> successes of the OA movement so far and aim to drive it all
> the way.
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> Best wishes,
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