I'm happy to announce that this blog is changing its name from FOS News to Open Access News. The new name is both more accurate and more self-explanatory than the old one. The field covered by the blog is now better known as the "open access movement" than the "FOS movement". This wasn't true when the blog launched, but it's true now. I'm proud of how widely the term "FOS" became associated with this movement, but even happier with the spread of the term "open access" since the launch of the Budapest Open Access Initiative in February 2002. "Open access" is now the term of art I use in my own writing, and the term preferred by most researchers, editors, publishers, librarians, journalists, and activists who discuss these topics. At first I retained the "FOS" name for my blog and newsletter because of the hard-won branding identity they had built up. But I've long felt a competing pressure to use the same term that I was encouraging everyone else to use. More.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/28/2003 01:20:00 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.
