[Open-access] Collections of Libre material

Mon Feb 13 09:21:52 UTC 2012

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Good idea. It requires extracting the email of the mots responsive author.
This isn't now normally visible. In any case it may be valuable to
personalise it.

What we might also do is to mail authors **as soon as a paper comes out**.
They are still likely to have the pre-review manuscript. If there is a
simple way to (a) deposit it and (b) mark it as Open then we might get a
surge of contributions. A few publishers ( e.g. ACS) refuse to publish
material that has been pre-published but there is nothing to stop people
publishing their own manuscripts.

It's probably not as trivial as it seems. But:

"We are delighted to see you have published in XXX. Most of the world does
not have access to the final version of this paper. Many of them would find
your submitted manuscript valuable. Our site (yyy) allows you to upload the
manuscript to a site that everyone can see. You retain copyright, but make
the manuscript available as CC-BY so that everyone can re-use the material
as long as they attribute you."

If we even got 10 percent that would be a big achievement and get huge
publicity. Of course it hasn't had the holy peer review.

>
> -- 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
> > Reader in Molecular Informatics
> > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> > University of Cambridge
> > CB2 1EW, UK
> > +44-1223-763069
> >
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-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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