[GOAL] Re: One way to expand the OA movement: be more inclusive

[Peter Murray-Rust]

We are now at the point where anything less than full BOAI-compliance is
seriously holding science and medicine back. We must have immediate

"free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read,
download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of
these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software,..."

We've just run a workshop in Edinburgh in the Neuroscience group who are,
inter alia, looking at Systematic review of animal experiments. One senior
post doc has spent the last year reading 30,000 papers (sic) - that's one
every 3 minutes - classifying them into properly reported and badly
reported tests. Our (Open) contentmine.org Text and Data Mining software
can do this in a few seconds per paper. But ONLY if we are legally allowed
to do this; and the only licences that allow this explicitly are CC-BY or
CC0. (I have spent a considerable time on the legal aspects).

The main STM publishers are challenging the right to Mine Content and
throwing money at lobbying MEPs and European Commission to have restrictive
clauses added to potential leglislation. The primary defence against this
in almost all countries is to have science and medicine published as
BOAI-compliant CC-BY or CC0. Calling anything else "Open Access" is simply
giving huge political support to the STM publishing industry and preventing
scientists using modern tools.

P.




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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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