<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The real issue is to do with usage rights. Can any article that is presented as being OA just be read with human eyes, or also be re-used and used for text-mining? The answer in my view should be 'yes', re-use and text-mining, too, whether the article is in a repository, a personal web site, or a publisher's site.<div><br></div><div>There may be technical issues to overcome, but there is scant reason to overcome those for so-called OA articles if text-mining is not allowed. By the way, a format converter to assist text-mining can be found here: <a href="http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk">http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk</a> . The web version works on individual articles, but I gather that batch processing (of the content of a repository, say) is possible, albeit at a very small fee per article. But these kind of tools don't make articles BOAI-compliant OA; if articles are not, permission must still be sought. I can understand those who regard OA pretty much useless without the rights to re-use and text-mine.</div><div><br></div><div>Jan</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 9 May 2012, at 13:28, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Stevan Harnad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">A provisional definition, of a new possibility and vision,<div>crafted by a team of well-meaning but not omniscient</div><div>visionaries at the time -- and since updated in keeping </div>
<div>with reality and practical experience.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/442-guid.html" target="_blank">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/442-guid.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><br></div></blockquote><div>This states: <br></div><div><ul><li><i>Because there are many different permission barriers to remove, there
many different degrees or kinds of libre OA. Gratis OA is just one
thing, but libre OA is a <em>range</em> of things. </i></li></ul><p>Where can I find definitions or examples of Libre OA? Without those it is effectively meaningless.</p><p>P.</p><p><br></p></div></div>-- <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>
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