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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

We now have the Twitter tag @ccess! This is fantastic. Thanks to Tyler Neylon for making this happen. The progress on http://access.okfn.org and http://whoneedsaccess.org is fantastic. On the latter we are getting daily stories from the #scholarlypoor – people who … Continue reading →

I’ve been invited to a very timely meeting in Oxford next week to discuss the future of Scholarship. “Open Science and the Future of Publishing” http://www.evolutionofscience.org/webFlyer.pdf . The question I want to ask is (roughly): “We the public pay 10 … Continue reading →

There’s an arrogant assumption among many academics that scholarly publishing is produced by academics (maybe 1% of the population) to be read only by other academics (1% of the population) and that no-one else matters. After all why would anyone … Continue reading →

Today we have launched @ccess – a new site, and more importantly a new community – to make scholarly information REALLY LIBRE available. I’ll stress to start with that this means all disciplines and all types of information and means … Continue reading →