The term open access and the acronym OA have arrived. They have meanings outside the world of scholarly communication, but they have arrived. Acronyma is a new search engine for acronyms. Search for "OA" and it returns 15 names and phrases with those initials. Rank them by importance and Open Access comes out on top --ahead of Order of the Arrow, Olympic Airways, and operator algebras.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/10/2005 03:26:00 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.
