# Global Open Access Forum

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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](/source/Open_access_(publishing)) (free online access to [peer-reviewed](/source/Peer-review) research). It was created by the [American Scientist](/source/American_Scientist), which is published by [Sigma Xi](/source/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[1] published in [American Scientist](/source/American_Scientist) in which Thomas J Walker of the [University of Florida](/source/University_of_Florida) proposed that journals should furnish free online access out of the fees authors pay them to purchase reprints. [Stevan Harnad](/source/Stevan_Harnad), who had in 1994 made the [Subversive Proposal](/source/Subversive_Proposal) that all researchers should [self archive](/source/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](/source/Self-archiving), [institutional repositories](/source/Institutional_repositories), [citation impact](/source/Citation_impact), research [performance metrics](/source/Performance_metrics), [publishing](/source/Publishing) reform, [copyright](/source/Copyright) reform, [open access journals](/source/Open_access_journals), and [open access mandates](/source/Open_access_mandate).

## External links

- [American Scientist Open Access Forum](https://web.archive.org/web/20150617184402/http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html) Official Site

- [Global Open Access List](http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal) Official Site

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Walker, T.J. (1998) Free Internet Access to Traditional Journals](http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/free-internet-access-to-traditional-journals/1). *American Scientist* 86(5) 463-71

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