[GOAL] Re: Meaning of Open Access

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Jan Velterop <velterop at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Yes


> 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 .
>

We have developed something similar and it is Open Source, which means that
there can be a collaborative effort to extend and develop it.


> 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.
>
> Exactly right. I am developing the tools on BMC articles as those are
completely BOAI-compliant. I can make the extracted science completely
Open. I cannot do that with ACS.


>
>
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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