Open access: per un approccio storico e critico | Capaccioni | AIB studi

[Google translate] Open access: for a historical and critical approach

2017 can be considered an important year for reflection on the state of the art of what is called the Open Access Movement (OA). February marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Budapest open access initiative declaration (BOAI, 2002)1 , one of the three documents considered to be the foundation of OA. The discussion was frank and, apart from some inevitable commemorative reconstructions, different approaches to 'open philosophy' emerged, to use a term recently used by Mauro Guerrini2, 'in our case' applied to the world of scientific communication. Without claiming to summarize a lively discussion, enriched over the months not only by articles but also by speeches in specialized blogs and social networks, we have identified two contributions that can somehow be proposed as representative of different positions: the long reflection entitled Open access: toward the internet of the mind presented on 23 February 2017 by Jean-Claude Guédon on the occasion of the official celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the BOAI and an interview given in September of the same year by Leslie Chan3.