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

[Reckling, Falk, Dr.]

I fully agree with Peter:



a) (Europe) PMC is an enormous success, with more than 2.5 million peer reviewed papers publically available.

b) This forum should be not a battlefield for a religious war discriminating in believers and heretics, but a forum of exchanging ideas ...



Best Falk

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Von: goal-bounces at eprints.org [goal-bounces at eprints.org]" im Auftrag von "Peter Murray-Rust [pm286 at cam.ac.uk]
Gesendet: Montag, 08. Oktober 2012 19:27
An: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Betreff: [GOAL] Re: Europe PubMed as a home for all RCUK research outputs?



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

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