[CivicAccess-discuss] ibelieveinopen.ca: help with wording of online pledge

[Heather Morrison]

This is a great idea - when ready for signing, please post so that we  
can all link!

As for terminology:  Would it help to point to one of the definitions  
of open access, such as Peter Suber's Open Access Overview, the  
Budapest, Berlin, or Bethesda statements?  Or is there a better term  
for open data?

Peter Suber's Open Access Overview can be found here:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Using the term open access fits with other OA advocacy in Canada.   
Our research funders are all moving in an OA direction, and many  
people will have already heard the term.

Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and  
does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library  
Network or Simon Fraser University Library.

Heather Morrison, MLIS
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

On 15-Sep-08, at 1:15 PM, Robin Millette wrote:

> Le Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:07:00 -0600,
> Robert Tiessen <tiessen at ucalgary.ca> a écrit :
>
>> I prefer the term "open access."  The access isn't free, but since  
>> our
>> tax dollars have already paid for it Canadians deserve open access.
>
> "Open" is very confusing too:
> http://commonspace.typepad.com/commonspace/2008/02/open-vs-open- 
> vs.html
>
>> Jennifer Bell wrote:
>
>>> "I support free access to scientific, electoral, and survey data  
>>> gathered by government institutions."
>
> How about "freedom of access"?
>
> -- 
> Robin Millette
> http://rym.waglo.com/
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