There were two schools that were developing. There was the minority school but very strongly argued school of let's self archive what we produce and then people will do with what they want without. On the other hand there were a number of people including myself who kept on saying wait a minute there is a little bit more to this than just self-archiving. So you could see the beginning of a discussion which in effect was resting on the fact that some more complex process had to be envisioned. The open access movement somehow got kidnapped by whom and by what? By the librarians. They saw in open access the ultimate tool to keep the publishers under control. If we do a lot of open
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Open Access is one of the pillars of Open Science. In this episode I am talking to Jean-Claude Guedon from the University of Montreal (Canada). Jean-Claude is one of the authors of the declaration of the Budapest Open Access Initiative from 2002. He is also an expert on scientific communication and its history.
Who better to take us through the road that led to the Open Access declaration, what has become of it and where (we hope) it will go.
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