Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 13:32:06 +0000

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, R. Stephen Berry wrote:

> Just a suggestion: have a look at the website of Songza. It's a web
> searcher that plays (I think) anything that is available on the web,
> free, but not downloadable. It's an interesting form of open access
> to which nobody could possibly object.

OA means "available on the web, free."

Songza plays whatever is available on the web, free.

The OA problem is what is *not* yet "available on the web, free"
(rather than just finding or playing what is already OA).

Stevan Harnad
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