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Byline: Tracey Caldwell
When is open access really open access?
Tracey Caldwell
Some forms of open access are, it seems, more open than others, with a an American Scientist Open Access Forum debate ending with a consensus that a number of open access (OA) models exist.
Peter Murray-Rust, of the Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics at Cambridge University, said that where information in scientific papers was openly accessible but the papers themselves were the copyright of the publisher, "this is absolutely not open access according to the Budapest Open Access Initiative [BOAI]".
Stevan Harnad responded: "The Directory of Open Access Journals [DOAJ] definition of OA is better than the BOAI one, which contains too many unnecessary as well as redundant requirements. A journal article is OA if it is freely accessible online permanently. OA is about commonsense, not operational definitions or a formal, legalistic business. OA is defined on the article, not the journal."
But Sally Morris, chief executive at the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, disagreed: "A surprising number of DOAJ journals are not genuine research journals or not OA at all."
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