[GOAL] A bit of advice with regards to the history of the OA movement

[Constantinescu Nicolaie]

Dear friends,

Some colleagues here in Romania asked me to put together a very brief evolution path to the moment when „Open Access” came to being.

I came up with this design in a very short notice - http://www.flickr.com/photos/84345232@N00/7024908289/ . I have taken another look at the timeline (http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline), but I had to look from 10.000 feet.

This is what came to be. Although the milestones explanations are in Romanian, all should be pretty self explanatory?!

Is there any other big, big, big moment in time that slipped my eye?

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Constantinescu Nicolaie
Information Architect
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[Stevan Harnad]

Dear CN:

Where is Peter Suber (the primary drafter of the BOAI and the de

facto leader of the OA movement) in your design?

Best wishes,

Stevan

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[Constantinescu Nicolaie]

Yes! good point.

I should associate Mr. Peter Suber with the 2002 moment. Hmmm... in fact there was so much information lately, but working under pressure leads so many times to this kind of slip offs.

Thank you Mr. Steven, a helping hand.

Please, any other suggestion?!

[Jean-Claude Guédon]

I fully agree with Stevan : Peter was the actual drafter of BOAI in 2001-2, and he has remained front and centre ever since.

A little detail : thanks for mentioning Surfaces, but it started in 1991, and you should also mention Stevan's publication , Psycholoquy which started even earlier.

Best,

Jean-Claude

-- Jean-Claude Guédon Professeur titulaire Littérature comparée Université de Montréal

[Hélène.Bosc]

 

Dear Nicolaie

It seems me very difficult to try to sum up in a poster more than 20 years of efforts and technology in Open Access. Inevitably you will forget something or somebody.

Concerning " big, big, big moments", I have in mind some missing events and names (people and organizations). But it is my own perception of "big, big, moments" .

Just to give you an example extracted from your own selection: the open access periodical Psycholoquy was created by Stevan Harnad at the same time than Surfaces that you mention in your poster (created by Jean-Claude Guédon).

See in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_journal. You can read : "The first digital-only, free journals (eventually to be called "open access journals") were published on the Internet in the late 1980s.^{[citation needed]} Among them was Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Postmodern Culture, Psycoloquy, and The Public-Access Computer Systems Review."

 

You will notice that Surfaces doesn't appear in the wikipedia list! Not fair for Jean-Claude, isn’t? And difficult therefore to choose the right periodical that should be mentionned in your poster!

 

I know that you are very involved in Open access in Romania and I wish you a good luck for all your projects!

Hélène Bosc
Open Access to Scientific Communication
http://open-access.infodocs.eu/tiki-index.php

[Constantinescu Nicolaie]

Thank you all taking time for calibrating this.

I took notice and it will be amended accordingly.

Oh... there are many, many fine people who toiled over the years on Open Access movement. So many to whom I had the honor to learn and to get council when time required it.

I really do not want to "erase" none and my deepest wish is to make the A4 page large enough to accommodate your kind and voluntary efforts. I sense I will cross the requirement and push for a 2 A4 pages...

Are there any other suggestions, please do put them on the table.

[Lappin, Debra R.]

You might also consider the role of Harold Varmus, Director of NIH in the late 1990’s – certainly the architect of pub med and what became pubmed Central, convener of nobel laureates in favor of oa, etc.

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Constantinescu Nicolaie <kos...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Subject: [GOAL] A bit of advice with regards to the history of the OAmovement

Dear friends,

Some colleagues here in Romania asked me to put together a very brief evolution path to the moment when „Open Access” came to being.

I came up with this design in a very short notice - http://www.flickr.com/photos/84345232@N00/7024908289/ . I have taken another look at the timeline (http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline), but I had to look from 10.000 feet.

This is what came to be. Although the milestones explanations are in Romanian, all should be pretty self explanatory?!

Is there any other big, big, big moment in time that slipped my eye?

If you are going back as far as 1969 then I think many people would see the Free/Open software movement (Stallman, 1986) as creating much of the background practice and philosophy that went into "Open  Access". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software.

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Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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[Reme Melero]

May I suggest also John Willinsky, director of the PKP project?
Good morning
Reme



El 30/03/2012 09:40, Constantinescu Nicolaie escribió:

Dear all,

At this moment it looks like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/84345232@N00/6882741866/in/photostream

Please Hélène Bosc and Lappin, Debra R, do empty your pouch here.

The guiding line is to follow the WWW evolution and that was the reason the early efforts are not accounted. I sense the need for a completely new design, more inclusive, more 

true to the facts. If time allows it I will pursue this endeavor.

Thank you all, your kind contribution got it better! 

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[Dominique Babini]

Yes, I agree with Reme, OJS/PKP, started by John Willinsky in 1998, and is now used by 11.500 journals worldwide, a great contribution to help
journals go open access (ex. AJOL with 420 journals from 30 African countries). 
May I also suggest  SciELO-Scientific Electronic Library Online, started by Abel Packer in 1997, and today provides open access to
934 journals from 15 countries, mainly Iberoamerica, a cooperative model for online journal publishing that does not charge fees to authors
or users. 
Dominique
 

2012/3/30 Reme Melero <rme...@iata.csic.es>

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[Constantinescu Nicolaie]

Having no claims for this covering the whole, I have incorporated and came to the final version (as much as an A4 may bare).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84345232@N00/6883105726/in/photostream

Maybe in time there will be resources to write visually the entire history.

I would've loved to insert all the fine and dedicated ladies of the moment to whom I apologies for not finding their rightful place.

But hopefully time will come when everything will be set right in a more extended effort to get everyone's right place.

Thank you for your time, for your pieces of advice and most of all for your patience and understanding.

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