[GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access

[Jan Velterop]

The real issue is to do with usage rights. Can any article that is presented as being OA just be read with human eyes, or also be re-used and used for text-mining? The answer in my view should be 'yes', re-use and text-mining, too, whether the article is in a repository, a personal web site, or a publisher's site.

There may be technical issues to overcome, but there is scant reason to overcome those for so-called OA articles if text-mining is not allowed. By the way, a format converter to assist text-mining can be found here: http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk . The web version works on individual articles, but I gather that batch processing (of the content of a repository, say) is possible, albeit at a very small fee per article. But these kind of tools don't make articles BOAI-compliant OA; if articles are not, permission must still be sought. I can understand those who regard OA pretty much useless without the rights to re-use and text-mine.

Jan


On 9 May 2012, at 13:28, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:

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> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Stevan Harnad <harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> A provisional definition, of a new possibility and vision,
> crafted by a team of well-meaning but not omniscient
> visionaries at the time -- and since  updated in keeping 
> with reality and practical experience.
> 
> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/442-guid.html
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> 
> This states: 
> Because there are many different permission barriers to remove, there many different degrees or kinds of libre OA.  Gratis OA is just one thing, but libre OA is a range of things.  
> Where can I find definitions or examples of Libre OA? Without those it is effectively meaningless.
> 
> P.
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