[GOAL] Re: [BOAI] Meaning of Open Access

[Jan Velterop]

In the BOAI, the content to which OA should apply is described as follows:
"The literature that should be freely accessible online is that which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment. Primarily, this category encompasses their peer-reviewed journal articles, but it also includes any unreviewed preprints that they might wish to put online for comment or to alert colleagues to important research findings."

This is a handy page to keep at hand and to refer to: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm (unfortunately, the BOAI site itself, http://www.soros.org/openaccess, is often exceedingly slow and therefore difficult to consult if you don't have a lot of time).

Jan

On 9 May 2012, at 16:48, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:

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> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Jan Velterop <velterop at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey,
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> All research articles in BMC journals are OA, BOAI-compliant CC-BY. A few journals (six of them, to be precise, http://arthritis-research.com/ , http://breast-cancer-research.com/, http://ccforum.com/ ,http://genomebiology.com/ , http://genomemedicine.com/ ,  and http://stemcellres.com/ ) contain non-research articles, e.g. commissioned Reviews, Commentaries, Meeting reports, Viewpoints, and those articles – only those – are subject to a subscription charge.
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> Jan
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> Thanks both of you,
> This is a good illustration that Open Content Mining does not necessarily all of the lierature to be fully CC-BY. It requires clear labelling of the subset that is BOAI-compliant. There is enough material - I believe - in BMC and PLoS papers to develop some useful science. And the toll-access journals will miss out on the citations. 
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> This is the problem with UK/PMC (as Casey Bergman and others have pointed out) - it is difficult to find the content that is minable other than BMC and PLoS.
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> P.
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