EOS, the un-secret story | Ouvertures immédiates

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-12-30

Summary:

"At first, it did not seem to be something worth writing about. But a few days ago, a totally unexpected attack came up in a commentary by Peter Murray-Rust, a well known chemist at Cambridge University, in Richard Poynder’s blog, « Open and Shut« . Richard’s blog article of December 17th, « Open Access slips into closed mode ? » was about his surprise to discover that « Berlin 12 », the 12th edition of a major yearly gathering of the Open Access (OA) community, was paradoxically 'by invitation only', something you could call « restricted access »…! His astonishment was understandable (even though he came up strangely with the concept of « secret society »). But to me, another surprise came from Murray-Rust’s aggressive and unfair comment (or perhaps simply paranoid) : I have sympathy with Richard on the issue of the « secret society. Look at ‘Enabling Open Scholarship‘ (EOS) « where the great and good set up a secret organisation to manage OA. It includes many of the professors, etc. of OA [sic] and shuts out people like me and you. This was 7-8 years ago and suggests that the OA movement was a privileged clique that dictated what others should do. There is no sense of « Open » in the way that « Free/Open Source is Open » (underlining is mine). It was of course shocking to me and all other EOS members, even though we have been targeted by the same person before, but never publicly. This time, it cought the attention of Richard Poynder and that of Rick Anderson, who reacted on the same blog and on Twitter and wondered if EOS was really open to all organisations and if it was truly public, calling for answers by someone involved in EOS. As Chairman, I could not do less than send the following declaration which was made public by Richard on his blog ..."

Link:

https://bernardrentier.wordpress.com/2015/12/27/eos-the-no-secret-story/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.advocacy oa.misunderstandings

Date tagged:

12/30/2015, 09:47

Date published:

12/30/2015, 04:47