Stevan, I would have guessed BOAI as the first OFFICIAL use. I'm trying to ferret-out the PRE-HISTORY of the term--even its informal, coincidental or unconscious use--LEADING UP to the conscious decision of those involved in BOAI (including yourself, Stevan) to call this thing that we're all now talking about "open access".
Thanks. 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 On Aug 7, 2012, at 12:25 AM, goal-requ...@eprints.org wrote: > > Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 00:00:01 -0400 > From: Stevan Harnad <har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk> > Subject: [GOAL] Re: First use of the phrase "open access"? > To: "Global Open Access List \(Successor of AmSci\)" > <goal@eprints.org> > Message-ID: <c0192983-2881-49bf-b9c7-a2ba62f42...@ecs.soton.ac.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > The term became official with Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) > http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read > > 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 _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
