Daily Archives: May 3, 2008

The strongOA-weakOA borderline is undefineable

Stevan Harnad (one of the creators of the current terms strongOA and weakOA – Peter Suber is the other) now makes it clear (this blog May 3rd, 2008 at 2:00 pm e) that an objective operational definition of strongOA is … Continue reading

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SPARC requires CC-BY for their "OA Seal"

I missed this announcement from SPARC or I would certainly have trumpeted it… Comments at end… From: David Prosser [email] Sent: 23 April 2008 17:18 To: ‘sparc-europe@arl.org’ Subject: Launch of the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journal Lund, Sweden … Continue reading

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How many forms of OA are there now?

You use Although the main OA world seems oblivious to the need to define what they are talking about the discussion continues on this blog! Stevan Harnad now writes a comment which, when taken with Peter Suber’s comments leaves me … Continue reading

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The merits and demerits of PDF

Chris Rusbridge and I have been indulging in a constructive debate about whether PDF is a useful archiving tool. Chris, as readers know, runs the Digital Curation Centre. I’ll reproduce the latest post from his blog and intersperse with comments. … Continue reading

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