[GOAL] Re: Fwd: I don't want free online access: I want free online access with re-use rights!

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> wrote:
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> See: *I don't want free online access: I want free online access with
> re-use rights!*<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1092-I-dont-want-free-online-access-I-want-free-online-access-with-re-use-rights%21.html>
>


I can't let this torrent of hypotheticals and suppositions stand

This includes completely misleading statements such as:

"I don't want free online access: I want free online access with re-use
rights!"

*SH rebuttal : But re-use rights to only a fragment of the research in a
field are near-useless...*

"near-useless" is SH's judgment. He has no evidence for this and it's
simply catstrophically wrong.

I am starting right now to mine the bioscience literature. BOAI #openaccess
is somewhere around 15-20 percent of currently published bioscience. That
is enormously valuable as it stands. SH may describe my research as
"near-useless" but I can extract high-quality publishable science, and I
intend to publish it if it achieves a useful scientific gain. There are
MANY cases where comprehensiveness is not required.

Here are some of the things I and colleagues intend to do - they are NOT
"near-useless"

* compiling a vocabulary. This is of enormous value in nearly every field.
20% will contain all the commonly used vocabulary. The value of the
long-tail is not critical in most fields

* building a natural language toolkit. I have done this and it is widely
used . I do not need the whole literature to do this.

* creating a corpus for the community to use as a reference. This is
extremely useful and has been plagued in the past by rights issues

* extracting information from diagrams and figures.

* building reference data. My group has built a system with half the
world's published crystallographic data (200,000 structures) . For many
purposes - docking drugs into enzymes, building nanomaterials , supporting
Quantum mechanics calculations - it's essentially as valuable as the
complete literature.

* reference data. Enormously valuable.

It is a great pity that Open Access has become embroiled in personal
crusades rather than constructive discussion and accurate opinions.

My research on 15-20% of the literature is not "near-useless" and this will
become clear in the next 1-2 months









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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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