Molbank and Open Access

Antony Williams writes:

ChemSpider Will Soon Support Open Access Articles On the Site

Posted by: Antony Williams in Open Access Publishing Copyright©2008 Antony Williams
Some of you may be aware of the Molbank Open Access Journal. I recently blogged about our dedicated website for this Open Access Journal described here. Murray-Rust has discussed MDPI journals previously and their nature of Open Access. I am happy to validate that they are as Open Access as they can be. They have given us the right to mirror their articles on our site and in the next few weeks we will do exactly that, host Molbank articles connected directly to the chemical structures. Watch this space for our exapanding integrations with Open Access publishers.

PMR: I also support publishers who make their material available. I don’t want to appear churlish, but Molbank use what is effectively a NC (non-commercial) license and this is what concerned me (and others) when I posted about 1 year ago. I don’t think it has changed. So sorry, Antony, it’s not “as Open Access as they can be” especially if one has to ask permission to mount the material.
I shall be writing more about what Open Access is and isn’t quite shortly, but cannot do so at the moment – please accept this. It’s important that we address the concept more precisely than we have been doing up to now.

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3 Responses to Molbank and Open Access

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  2. pm286 says:

    (2) Thank you. It doesn’t seem to be visible yet – when it is I’ll read it.
    P.

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