Re: Is there any need for a universal Open Access label?

2003-12-02 Thread Helene Bosc
At 19:56 01/12/03 +, Stevan Harnad a ecrit: It would be a much more useful and universal solution to incorporate the criteria for being FIPATRAFTO into the OAI archives: An article is FIPATRAFTO if the OAI archive in which it is archived contains its full-text (not just its metadata), it is

Re: Is there any need for a universal Open Access label?

2003-12-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Helene Bosc wrote: May I suggest the abbreviated acronym FIPA instead of FIPA-TRAFTO? The acronym for FREE, IMMEDIATE, PERMANENT ACCESS TO REFEREED-ARTICLE FULL-TEXTS ONLINE was only meant tongue-in-cheek (as I assume Helene's comment was too). your definition of

Is there any need for a universal Open Access label?

2003-12-01 Thread Stevan Harnad
From: The need for a universal Open Access label http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/editorials/?issue=10 [I]n line with a recent prediction from technology journalist Richard Poynder that the term 'Open Access' is about to go through a very difficult period in which it will be used to