Global Open Access Forum

The '''Global Open Access List (GOAL)''', until January 2012 the '''American Scientist Open Access Forum''', is the longest-standing online discussion forum on [[Open access (publishing)|Open Access]] (free online access to [[peer-review]]ed research). It was created by the [[American Scientist]], which is published by [[Sigma Xi]], in September 1998, before the term "Open Access" (OA) was coined, and it was originally called the "September98-Forum." Its first focus was an article<ref>[http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/free-internet-access-to-traditional-journals/1 Walker, T.J. (1998) Free Internet Access to Traditional Journals]. ''American Scientist'' 86(5) 463-71</ref> published in [[American Scientist]] in which Thomas J Walker of the [[University of Florida]] proposed that journals should furnish free online access out of the fees authors pay them to purchase reprints. [[Stevan Harnad]], who had in 1994 made the [[Subversive Proposal]] that all researchers should [[self archive]] their peer-reviewed research, was invited to moderate the forum, which was not expected to last more than a few months. It continued to grow in size and influence across the years and is still the site where most of the main developments in OA are first mooted, including [[self-archiving]], [[institutional repositories]], [[citation impact]], research [[performance metrics]], [[publishing]] reform, [[copyright]] reform, [[open access journals]], and [[open access mandate]]s.

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20150617184402/http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html American Scientist Open Access Forum] Official Site * [http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal Global Open Access List] Official Site

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[[Category:Open access projects]] [[Category:Publishing organizations]] [[Category:Research]] [[Category:Archives in the United States]] [[Category:American organizations established in 1998]]