[Open-access] Collections of Libre material

[Tom Olijhoek]

In addtion to my comment below, I found  a very useful article on Dutch OA
repositories
http://wowter.net/2012/02/10/a-census-of-open-access-repositories-in-the-netherlands/




On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com> wrote:

> On 13 February 2012 14:14, Tom Olijhoek <tom.olijhoek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I liked your blogs on @ccess very much. Well done Peter. And your
> article on
> > open access was class storytelling also, Mike.
>
> Thanks, appreciated!
>
> BTW., at about the same time I was also able to place an article in
> the Independent:
>
> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/02/09/the-future-of-academic-publishing/
> so we have reasonably good coverage of the issues in mainstream UK
> quality press.  I did try to interest the Telegraph, too, but no reply
> from them yet.  (I might try again: I am not going to run out of
> material for opinion pieces any time soon :-)
>
> > Especially for scientists access to complete articles and data
> > is compulsory, but I guess that for "laymen" illustrative pictures and
> > abstracts would be sufficient.
>
> I always get nervous when I see this sort of scientist/layman
> distinction, and I think we should work to eradicate such a boundary
> as much as possible.  (I was a layman myself until a few years ago,
> and would have hated to be fed a watered-down version of research
> while an elite priesthood of scientists got the Real Stuff.
>
> I did not mean to only allow access to abstracted info for non-scientists.
But I think that much of the real stuff is difficult to comprehend even for
specialists. so it could be useful to also create a possiblity to go to
abstracted content, by way of choice.

> The database should be useful for all.
> > Regarding the lack of peer review. Once preview papers are deposited wirh
> > @ccess nothing can stop us from using new ways of review and impact
> > assessment with the help of the respective scientific communities.
>
> Would there be a role for leveraging F1000 Research, arXiv of Nature
> Prededings for this?  I would hate to reinvent a wheel and fragment a
> community.  (I don't have anything resembling an actual plan here -- I
> am just tossing the idea into the ring in case it provokes any useful
> thought.)
>
> -- Mike.
>
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