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Springer (commendably) publishes most of its APC-paid Open Access under CC-BY licences and allows free re-use for any purpose. However some “Open Access” (e.g. Drugs in R&D) is licensed under CC-BY-NC (non-commercial). This excludes, for example, re-use as teaching materials. … Continue reading →

I must apologize to the Royal Society of Chemistry for material in the blog last week (/pmr/2013/07/31/does-the-royal-society-of-chemistry-deliver-on-its-commitments-on-open-access/ ). I failed to give the complete picture by implying that the RSC did not offer CC-BY as a paid option for Open … Continue reading →

esare Bellini from EDINA and I are doing a developer challenge, adapting my hack4ac prototype to annotate images with licence information. See /pmr/2013/07/24/making-images-open-can-and-should-be-routine/ for the idea. What we are going to do is: Point to a URL of an image … Continue reading →

I’m going through publishers in a semi-systematic way looking to see whether paid Open Access (Author Publishing Charges, APC) gives readers and authors the results they deserve. Look at the preceeding posts for RSC and Elsevier where readers are forbidden … Continue reading →

In the last two posts I have shown examples of how legacy publishers charge additional money for the re-use of CC-NC (“non-commercial”) articles. I have taken examples of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Elsevier, but this is applicable to … Continue reading →

The legacy publishers are not shy of promoting “their” latest articles under the #openaccess twitter tag. Here’s todays from Elsevier. You might think that when an author had paid APCs to publish an article as “Open Access” you’d be allowed … Continue reading →

Nearly a year ago I blogged that the Royal Society of Chemistry was charging ca 100 USD per student for re-use of a 2-page “Open Access” article (/pmr/2012/11/06/royal-society-of-chemistry-will-charge-students-for-re-using-gold-open-access-articles ). The RSC has responded (very slowly) and in June replied to … Continue reading →

Today is the first (half) day of Repository Fringe in Edinburgh and we are having Workshops. Chris Gutteridge from Southampton is running one on Consuming Linked Open Data: RDF & Linked Open Data are terms becoming more common in the … Continue reading →

Ross Mounce @rmounce and Joseph W Brown have been tweeting about the lack of data to support published phylogenetic studies. (Readers of this blog will know that Ross and I start work in October to extract trees from published PDFs … Continue reading →

We are going to the Repository Fringe this week and are going to present a PechaKucha. What’s that? It’s 20 slides of 20 seconds each that change automatically. So 400 seconds in all. And the first one has to introduce … Continue reading →