<div dir="ltr">Thank you Jennifer,<br>Simon Worthington (TiB, Hanover) and I have started a FORCE11 working group on Open Climate Knowledge where we are building systems to scrape the worlds scholarly knowledge (including those not indexed by commercial publishers) . This has been pre-empted by COVID-19 so we have turned the code to extracting knowledge on viral epidemics (not just COVID). <div><a href="http://github.com/petermr/openVirus">http://github.com/petermr/openVirus</a></div><div>Andy Jackson has indexed 100,000 theses in BL (EThOS), and Clyde Davies is half way through indexing 4.7 million abstracts in Dir Open Access Journals (DOAJ)</div><div> Everything is volunteer and Open. The technology is completely general and can be re-used on any open access sources. Since indexes are not owned by authors, we can distribute indexes under the UK law.<br><br>Scholarly infrastructure is under threat. The threat of monoculture developed not for our benefit, but the income and control of megapublishers. If we do not provide alternatives we will do scholarship under the "snoop and control" of companies we pay huge amounts to. The way to challenge this is to build better infrastructure which is under our control, not corporations.<br><br>Did you know that over 90% of the literature on face-masks is behind paywalls? That the key 1982 paper predicting Ebola in Liberia is STILL paywalled? That Elsevier is withdrawing its free COVID tools in October 2020 (<a href="https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center">https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center</a>) almost certainly before the end of the epidemic? <br>We have to build our own infrastructure instead of pouring increasingly scarce money into publishers. <br><br>If it can index the BL theses, then it can index others. Do you have an underused repository that is machine unfriendly? Would it benefit from semantic indexing using Wikidata?</div><div><br>We have 7 wonderful volunteers from undergraduate / Masters students in India. Can you find some similar volunteers?<br><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 2:27 PM Jennifer Gibson <<a href="mailto:j.gibson@elifesciences.org">j.gibson@elifesciences.org</a>> wrote:<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 dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">(Apologies for cross-posting. Please spread the word!)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Please join us for the next Open-source Community Call, hosted in partnership by FORCE11, Dryad and eLife. These calls are an informal way to share and discuss efforts that promote open approaches to research communication, from dissemination of new results (as datasets, code or text) to discovery and evaluation. The focus is on emerging projects and significant updates for ongoing ones. Come out and get the latest.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br>The next call will be Monday, June 29, 2020 <br>8am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, and 4pm British Summer Time<br>Registration is free, but required. <br><br>Register here: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Bujp0KMORp6SQrrIczkJAg" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Bujp0KMORp6SQrrIczkJAg</a> <br><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The agenda is open and there's space for more presenters. Learn more at <a href="https://www.force11.org/article/register-attend-next-open-source-community-call-june-29" target="_blank">https://www.force11.org/article/register-attend-next-open-source-community-call-june-29</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you!</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">------------------------------</p><p><font color="#444444">Jennifer Gibson (née McLennan)<br>Head of Open Research Communication</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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