[GOAL] Re: Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and other intellectual property matters

[pippa.smart@gmail.com]

An interesting observation: are people paying for content or for a service? For example EBSCO are launching a medline package - the subscriber will get full text access to any article indexed in Medline. A very neat idea that I can see being very attractive to medical researchers. But quite a lot of Medline content is free or OA. So should they exclude these items? They (and I) would argue that people are paying for a service which includes OA and non-OA content - to exclude some content from the one-drop-shop would reduce its usefulness to me.

As a comparator, I can get water free from rivers but I'm happy to pay someone to clean it up and pipe it to me.

Pippa 
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From: "Sally Morris" <sally at morris-assocs.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, Mar 25, 2012 21:17
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and other intellectual property matters
To: "'Global Open Access List \(Successor of AmSci\)'" <goal at eprints.org>

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