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<font face="Times New Roman">Lovely response, Peter.<br>
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And, yes, let us remember the example set by Latin America, and in
particular by Amelica. They are now the true leaders of open
access. Incidentally, everyone should read this:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/view/347">https://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/view/347</a>. It is an
important</font><font face="Times New Roman"> article co-authored
by Dominique Babini and Humberto Debat.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-03-31 11:59 a.m., Peter
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One last note: OA will succeed, despite what Stevan says.
Let us shape OA the right way, and certainly not in the
way supported by Elsevier: in their view, OA is a
"charitable" gesture that is applied only in extreme
cases. The reality is that the Great Conversation of
science constantly needs it.<br>
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<div>We need clear messages. Open by default. Friction costs
resources and lives. <br>
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<div>I don't think people realise how serious friction is in
the modern world. <br>
If you have to write to an author the friction is absolute.
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If you have to read a licence the friction is absolute. <br>
If you have to work out where to find the full content is
from a landing page the friction is large.<br>
If you have to parse PDFs or publisher HTML the friction is
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<div>If you have to copy text the friction is absolute.<br>
If you don't know what you are getting , that's friction.<br>
If you get Dublin-Core or Highwire metadata , it's out of
date, undocumented, ambiguous and serious friction.<br>
If you crawl UK universities for theses that's Infinite
friction.<br>
If you crawl US universities for theses that's even worse
than infinite.<br>
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As an example we are working on design and use of masks for
COVID-19 and actually supporting their manufacture. The best
known one is N95. I immediately go to Wikidata. This
disambiguates all other "N95" so we have a precise
ontological object which machines can compute in SPARQL.
Wikipedia will be as correct and as uptodate as any other
authority. That's where the modern knowledge world is. By
using Wikidata I reduce almost all friction. <br>
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<div>See our tutorial example at:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/petermr/openVirus/blob/master/examples/n95/OVERVIEW.md" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/petermr/openVirus/blob/master/examples/n95/OVERVIEW.md</a><br>
where over 300 papers were analysed in great detail in 5
minutes. Volunteers welcome.</div>
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<div>My sources are now:<br>
EuropePMC, which mirrors PMC and adds to it.<br>
biorxiv/medrxiv which require me to write serious scrapers
so huge friction but our group will try to do it<br>
Redalyc (Mexico) really excited about this as it's a real
example of no fees - that Latin America has pioneered so
well. LatA<br>
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<div>In the UK can I use CORE? "Please register to receive an
API key ". I don't use services that require APIs so I
haven't used CORE. Why is this necessary? I bet it's to do
with IP somewhere. Also CORE is non-commercial. So, slightly
regretfully, I shan't use CORE.<br>
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<div> The right way to go is OA free for authors and for
readers, which means that it must be subsidized. But that
is all right because scientific research is subsidized and
scientific communication is an integral part of scientific
research (and it costs only 1% of the rest of research).<br>
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Yes. I suggest we humbly approach LatAm and other parts of
the Global South where we may learn what the real purpose of
publishing is. It's so people can READ things, whereas
megapub451 builds systems to stop people reading.<br>
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Let's glory the reader. Let's assess scholarship by how many
citizens OUTSIDE academia read our work. Because there are a
huge number of smart educated people throughout the world
who are - literally - killed by the present system.<br>
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"When I am dead, I hope it may be said. His sins were
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<div><a href="https://github.com/petermr/openVirus" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/petermr/openVirus</a>
- we now have a wiki where you can leave messages (I think)</div>
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nothing in any contract I sign with any publisher will
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Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics<br>
Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry<br>
University of Cambridge<br>
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