Non abusate del termine Open Access! | Tech Economy

From Google Translate: "One of the disturbing elements for the Open Access and its statement is the abuse that is made of the term. Too many times I've heard use 'open access' to refer to books, journals, databases, whilst being accessible for free, actually had the requirements of the definition of Open Access generally recognized.

Let's put it this way: 'Open Access' does not equal 'free,' as explained in the book Making Open Access. The free dissemination of scientific knowledge in the digital age. The same conceptual misunderstanding plaguing the world of free and open source software for the past thirty years and now being repeated even within the scientific communication.

Unfortunately, the success of the Open Access philosophy and also the effectiveness of semantic-term causes many subjects, of course not entirely in good faith, seeking to ride the wave and get confused between the institutions, companies, the authors instead are engaged seriously and genuinely in promoting this movement."