Dear Eric, in my blog version yesterday, my intro was as below. You are of
course right that there have been many factors in the growth (if not the birth!)
of OA, and OAI has certainly been one of them. Best wishes, Stevan
My friend Eric Van de Velde, who did so much for the growth of Open Access
The Santa Fe meeting may not have been the birth of Open Access, but it fired
the starting gun for interoperable institutional repositories based on what
later became the OAI protocol (OAI-PMH). I wasn't at that meeting, but if I
recall one of the motivations was to find ways of spreading the
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Just for the record can I throw in the first time I heard Stevan talk in
support of OA? it was proposing a motion at
a British Computer Science debate in London on 8 June 1995. It's recorded in
the Newsletter of the BCS Electronic
Publishing Specialist Group Vol 9 no 11 (Feb 1996). He proposed
