As part of a project to automate the collection of Libre scholarly publications and Libre material (<a href="http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/access/website">http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/access/website</a> ) I would be grateful if list members could offer clarification on whether a particular type of publication is Libre (BOAI-compliant). The manuscript in Pubmed referenced by <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18442920">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18442920</a> states:<br>
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<br></div></div></div></div>(A) Can I assume that this manuscript is pre-publication and therefore the copyright resides with the authors and that the publisher can claim no rights over anything in this manuscript, including images. (I'd like definitive statements, not logical deductions, please)<br>
<br>(B) since it is a work of the US Government can I also assume it is in the public domain and therefore free of copyright? <br><br>This is useful to our group in many ways even if it is not the final publisher manuscript - for examples the images would be fully re-usable. <br>
<br>I am aware that even though it does not belong to any publisher , I am not allowed to bulk download these manuscripts as the publishers place that restriction on Pubmed. We have alternative approaches.<br><br>P.<br><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069<br>