[GOAL] Re: US Presidential Open Access Directive: 3 Cheers and 8 Suggestions

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Andrew A. Adams <aaa at meiji.ac.jp> wrote:

>
> The first is that the primary means of achieving Open Access should be by
> deposit in either an institutional repository (for those researchers with
> an
> institutiona such as a research lab or a university) or in a single
> nominated
> general repository (preferably the OpenDepot: www.opendepot.org). Please
> do
> not encourage agencies to make the mistake of following the NIH which
> mandated direct deposit in BioMedCentral. By all means encourage automatic
> harvesting for relevant papers to relevant central or subject repositories
> such as BMC or even an agencies own. However, mandating deposit in an
> institutional repository encourages and reinforces institutions to maintain
> their own repositories and to mandate deposit of all research into that
> repository (not just federal funded research).


BioMedCentral is an Open-Access for profit CC-BY publisher. As far as I
know NIH has never mandated deposition in BMC.

I suspect you meant PubMedCentral (PMC) or its European counterpart
EuropePMC. (Disclaimer: I am on the project advisory board of EuroPMC).

For the record I strongly advocate publishing science in domain-specific
repositories. They already provide search interfaces which are heavily used
unlike the 2000+ Institutional repositories where no scientist uses them as
the first place to look. In some cases Google may have indexed some entries
but it is patchy and unsystematic and has no non-textual search (e.g.
sequences, chemical structures). In contrast the domain repositories are
developing unified standardised search indexes. Until there is a single
point search for repository content, perhaps on a country-wide basis, they
won't get searched.


-- 
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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