Monthly Archives: March 2012

Information-mining: Discussions with Wiley

I’ve now heard from Duncan (sic) Campbell in Wiley [I include his email because he is currently the contact point for information mining. I include our recent correspondence (Duncan in italics) On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Campbell, … Continue reading

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Textmining Update: Max Haussler’s Questions to publishers: They have a duty to reply

Today’s update is limited to one topic. Getting replies from publishers. In the digital age it is in principle possible for readers to contact publishers directly through a new technology called “email”. It’s very recent – about 20-30 years old … Continue reading

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Textmining: Update, Wiley, Nature and Hargreaves. And Elsevier allows me unrestricted text-mining! Thanks!!!

I shall continue to update on a daily basis. Hargreaves We have formed a small group to coordinate our reply to Hargreaves and this will take place on the OKF open-science and open-access lists (and @ccess). Please let us know … Continue reading

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Wiley: Cambridge scientist require to text-mine content in Wiley journals: please switch off the lawyers and the robots

At Oxford last week Bob Campbell of Wiley said that if anyone wished to text-mine content in Wiley journals all they had to do is ask. Thank you Bob! This is a formal request from scientists in: Dear Bob Campbell,We … Continue reading

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The CONTROL of knowledge: Ours or Elsevier’s; It’s High Noon for Universities

This is an account of my last few days, continuing to struggle against Elsevier for the right for academics to use their knowledge in the way that they wish. (Of course it’s not just Elsevier, it’s a large percentage of … Continue reading

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Information mining and Hargreaves: I set out the absolute rights for readers. Non-negotiable

As I have already blogged I have been asked by Ben Hawes at the UK Intellectual Property Office to respond to the Hargreaves report on “textmining”. I shall be getting help from my OKF colleagues. The issues are, in my … Continue reading

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Wiley’s “Fully Open Access” Chemistry Open; my review. If this is “Gold OA” I don’t want it.

Wiley/Blackwell have just launched “Chemistry Open”. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%292191-1363/ It’s described as a “fully open access” journal. http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/browse.html?journalId=1377333&infoId=1239257 And it costs 2500 EUR to publish one article (in the UK we have to pay VAT, so read 3000 EUR or about 4000 … Continue reading

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Our Protocol for Text-mining: Preamble and “Institutionalism”; Elsevier and other publishers should take note

I have been invited by the UK Intellectual Property Office to collect information and produce a reply to the Hargreaves report on copyright reform. The particular area that Ben Hawes (IPO) and I agreed on is “text-mining” [I shall refine … Continue reading

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#evoscidebate @ccess Evolution of scholpub (Oxford meeting)

This is a brief personal account of my recollections of the 2 hours at Oxford discussing the future of scholpub. http://duraspace.org/scientific-evolution-open-science-and-future-publishing . It’s a useful milestone if not a Huxley-Wilberforce confrontation. Please let me know if there are errors, It … Continue reading

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