The term became official with Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)
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On 2012-08-06, at 6:29 PM, Omega Alpha | Open Access wrote:
> Greetings. Does anyone know who/when first used the phrase "open access" to
> refer to toll free publication and/or access to scholarly literature, though
> not necessarily yet as a technical term?
>
> Could this be a candidate? I'm reading the transcript of Stevan Harnad's
> presentation: "Implementing Peer review on the Net: Scientific Quality
> Control in Scholarly Electronic Journals" in the Proceedings of the 1993
> International Conference on Refereed Electronic Journals, 1-2 October1993.
> Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 1994, 8.1-8.14, and come across the
> following excerpt:
>
> "Enter anonymous ftp ('file transfer protocol'--a means of retrieving
> electronic files interactively). The paper chase proceeds at its usual tempo
> while an alternative means of distributing first preprints and then reprints
> is implemented electronically. An electronic draft is stored in a 'public'
> electronic archive at the author's institution from which anyone in the world
> can retrieve at any time….The reader can now retrieve the paper for himself,
> instantly, and without ever needing to bother the author, from anywhere in
> the world where the Internet stretches--which is to say, in principle, from
> any institution of research or higher learning where a fellow-scholar is
> likely to be.
>
> "Splendid, n'est-ce pas? The author-scholar's yearning is fulfilled: open
> access to his work for the world peer community. The reader-scholar's needs
> and hopes are well served: free access to the world scholarly literature (or
> as free as a login on the Internet is to an institutionally affiliated
> academic or researcher)…." (8.4-8.5)
>
> The use here is clearly not yet technical, and yet it has all the earmarks of
> future application. The words "access," "open, "and "free" are used
> repeatedly in the Proceedings, but I was unable to find any the phrase "open
> access" was used elsewhere.
>
> I suppose the next question would be: At what point did this informal and
> (perhaps) coincidental use become formalized into a technical signifier?
>
> Curious and interested.
>
> Gary F. Daught
> Omega Alpha | Open Access
> http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com
> Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology
> oa.openaccess@ gmail.com | @OAopenaccess
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