[Open-access] Collections of Libre material

Mon Feb 13 08:57:36 UTC 2012

Maybe we could build a lightweight (one-click?) mechanism that, when
looking as a free-but-not-libre malaria paper, will send a message to
the copyright holder  requesting that the reissue it as libre?  If
even a tiny proportion of those requests yielded results, we could use
the co-operation of the first publisher that helps to shame all the
others.  Then hopefully we'd be able to build some momentum towards
liberating the majority of the relevant works.

-- Mike.

On 13 February 2012 08:52, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> As I blogged earlier
> http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/02/12/what-is-the-use-of-ccess-do-owls-get-malaria-is-wikipedia-believable-who%E2%80%99s-alice-hibbert-ware/
> and
> http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/02/12/avian-malaria-can-bibsoup-and-ccess-help-do-penguins-get-malaria/
> . The latter was depressing in some respects in that probably only about
> 4/70 papers were OKD/BOAI-open (I suggest we use the term Libre on this list
> as it avoids the confusion with Open Access and we know here what we are
> talking about.) This was from the decade 2000-2010 and we can expect earlier
> papers are even less libre
>
> Although a collection of 5/70 means that a particular resource is unlikley
> to be found, we can look for material that is generically useful. I'm
> assuming that in many cases the malaria community would simply need an
> example of something. I'm guessing that the following could be generally
> useful:
>  * images
>  * tables
>  * graphs
>  * introductions
>  * reference lists (bibliography)
>
> What I'm suggesting technically is that we can have a button that transfers
> the *link* to these resources directly to the Bibsoup. That when someone
> reads a paper they can click an "add a link to this image to bibsoup".
> Bibsoup itself will (probably) not hold images, but this will make it very
> easy to build a fully open collection. Tables and graphs can also be
> extremely useful, even if they relate to specific experiements
>
> The material might be:
>  * re-used in lectures
>  * re-used in newspapers
>  * re-used in books
>  * re-used in artistic creations
>  * searchable by machine (we can do this for chemical diagrans, etc. and I
> can see it being possible in gels, histology, etc.)
>  * useful for student assignments
>
> The material should always carry a back reference to the original paper
> (this id more than most Open image collections have)
>
> This is a small positive useful start. The idea will be that as people find
> it generally useful they will be tempted to add more material to the
> bibliography. We might even get to a stage where authors archived their
> pre-publication material (cf arXiv). I'm an optimist today
>
>
> H
>
>
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
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> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
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