[GOAL] Re: Europe PubMed as a home for all RCUK research outputs?

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> (2) Europe (formerly UK) PubMed Central (EPMC) is an OA collection of
> European biomedical articles.
>

This is seriously incorrect and misleading. UKPMC contains essentially all
of the content and many of the facilities of PubMedCentral and covers
closed access as well as open Access (however the term is defined). It also
has global content, not just European.

I am on the advisory and project board of UKPMC. I have have copied
colleagues and suggested that they give a formal statement (as it it more
authoritative than posting from me).

I will note that I am a strong supporter of domain repositories such as
UKPMC and see them as entirely appropriate for the deposition of
manuscripts. They are set up to do so and have a service for conversion of
manuscripts. UKPMC has a wide range of search and integration facilities
which are completely lacking in the fragmented institutional repository
infrastructure. For example it is possible to link manuscripts to species,
diseases and much more.

"Open Access" is a complex subject and progress depends on informed
discussion which includes getting one's facts right. I would hope that the
GOAL list would encourage such discussion, including contributions from
those who propose methods other than Green for OA. Having been the focus of
several (unjustified) ad hominem attacks on this list I shall not raise the
temperature unless it is clear that there can be a fair hearing. I recently
sat through an hour lecture by SH whose subtitle was "What Peter
Murray-Rust thinks and why he is wrong". The thoughts attributed to me were
factually incorrect.

-- 
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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