In the November 2002 issue of ICSTI Forum (just released), Barry Mahon has a short article on open archives, open access, and related issues and initiatives. Mahon is the executive director of the ICSTI and really should know his facts better. Two quick corrections: (1) "OAI" in capitals is not "the generic acronym for a set of computing based initiatives to make it possible to access content published on the web" but the specific acronym for the Open Archives Initiative. (2) It's simply false that "non-refereeing, not having peer review, [is] a principle of open access". Open access, as advocated by the Budapest Open Access Initiative, PLoS, SPARC, BMC, and others, is about peer-reviewed papers and their preprints. It is a damaging myth that it advocates bypassing peer review.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/08/2003 01:06:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
