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

Fri Feb 3 10:01:15 UTC 2012

Hi to all,

I also like the @ccess.very much
The tagline could read

                                                         *Open @ccess for
All*

*‘Sharing the results of scientific research’*

*For the description on the Website we could first state our target
audience and than define what we mean by Open Access*

*for instance: **“Today, most of the more than 2.5 million articles
published in the world ’s **24,000 peer-reviewed journals are inaccessible
to many of their*

*potential users because they cannot afford access.”*

*The solution to this problem is open access: free and unrestricted access
to scientific information for everyone: free to read, (re)use, and
(re)distribute as defined by the BOAI (ref   )
This site is dedicated to the promotion of Open Access in the broadest sense
*

*This will be done by: *

*publication of an Open Access Index: a novel way to measure access to
information*

*functioning as an Information portal on Open Access related information*

*being a one-stop address offering access to all published scientific
information organized around themes: for instance malaria, cancer*

*developing tools for easy access*

*offering novel ways of sharing information made possible by Open Access*

*building communities of scientists and citizens alike sharing information *

*linking to other Open Access  groups*

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> I am really excited about this - it kept me awake last night.
>
> "@ccess" solves many of our problems.
>
> We need to work out scope. IMO it is clearly access for everyone - to
> read, reuse, redistribute [something]. We should also include creation.
>
> It shouldn't cover everything (CKAN is there for some of that, Wiki*,
> etc.) So is it Scholarship (I am conscious that I'm sometimes unconsciously
> fall into being a science-ist - the equivalent of a racist). But if it's
> scholarship it mustn't be a one-way process - access to academic outputs.
>
> I think we are most likely to define it by what we do. But we should try
> to scope it over the next few days.
>
> I often find that FAQs are a good way of defining something - it's similar
> to unit-tests in test-driven-development.
>
>
> P.
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
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> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
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