<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:58 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brentier@ulg.ac.be" target="_blank">brentier@ulg.ac.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Good evening!</div><div><br></div><div></div></div></blockquote><div>Firstly,.<br>If I have upset Bernard Rentier and maligned his achievements it was not my intention and I apologize. There is much to admire about what he and his repo have done, but it has limitations and I have pointed some of them out. As I am no longer an employed academic I am debarred from using many of the contents. <br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I don't want to get involved too deeply in such a sterile discussion. It takes us nowhere.</div>
</div></blockquote><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br>I have tried very hard on this list to be constructive. It is my nature, and I am successful on other lists. Here it is difficult to have a balanced discussion. I shall keep trying because there are almost no placesLiege have done, b where the general population can make their views known about Open Access and this is one of the few.<br>
<br><br><div>>>I don't want to look overly proud of my accomplishments and those of my ORBi team, but if I search for<span><font> </font>Peter Murray-Rust's publications in Cambridge's IR, I can neither search by author nor by publisher, nor can I tell what is OA from what is not. It would be nice of him to get things working a little bit at home before pointing at what he considers our shortcomings.<br>
<br></span><span>It is completely unfair to attack me for the shortcomings of
Cambridge University. I am no longer employed by them (I am retired) and
I have never had any role in running the repository. <br>
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</span></div><span>>> May I ask him how many papers he published with ACS, how many of these are OA and how can I access them? Same for the entire University of Cambridge?<br><br><br>I have not submitted or published any first-author papers with them in the last five years. (I have been included as a co-author on - I think one or two - papers published by other authors).<br>
<br>Almost all my first-author papers in the last five years have been Gold (author-paid) papers - about 15 in the last two and in press. Three have been published with publishers who agreed to make them freely available and failed to honour their pledge.<br>
<br>I deliberately publish in Gold journals rather than in ACS. I challenge the policy of the ACS in my blog so I hope this answers your criticism.<br></span><br clear="all"></div></div></div>I am glad that you have found my suggestion of a high-level meeting valuable and I wish you success.<br>
<br>P.<br><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Emeritus Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069<br>