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