From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:19:32 +0100

The second interview in a series exploring the current state of Open
Access (OA) and what the priorities ought to be going forward has been
published. It is with self-styled archivangelist Stevan Harnad, who is
currently Canada Research Chair in cognitive science at Université du
Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and professor of web science at the
University of Southampton.

In 1994 Harnad posted an online message calling on all researchers to
archive their papers on the Internet in order to make them freely
accessible to their peers — a strategy that later became known as
Green Open Access, or self-archiving. The message — which Harnad
headed “The Subversive Proposal” — initiated a series of online
exchanges, many of which were subsequently collected and published as
a book in 1995.

Harnad was also one of the small group of people who attended the 2001
Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). It was in Budapest that the
term Open Access was coined, and a definition first agreed upon.

The interview can be read here:

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/where-are-we-what-still-needs-to-be.html

The first interview in the series, with palaeontologist and computer
programmer Mike Taylor, can be read here:

http://poynder.blogspot.pt/2013/07/open-access-where-are-we-what-still.html