[Open-access] Collections of Libre material

Mon Feb 13 15:39:13 UTC 2012

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:14 PM, 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.
> Regarding the ongoing discussion on content. I do think it  a priority to
> have as many links as possible to* full* content, by promoting archiving
> of papers with @ccess, by linking to open access articles, by using the
> Open Access Index as a means to influence the public opinion and
> politicians.
> Especially for scientists access to *complete* articles and data
> is compulsory, but I guess that for "laymen" illustrative pictures and
> abstracts would be sufficient. The database should be useful for all.
>

I agree with Mike, and Gilles Frydman makes this very clear - this is for *
everyone*. If someone or their friends/family is suffering from a disease -
especially a rare one - they have every incentive to become an expert.

Specialists retire or change jobs or take a break and they get cutoff from
acaemic publications. People outside academia often know MORE than those in
it - naturalists, social workers, business people, politicians - whoever.
We need these people.Medics may not be statisticians.

> 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. So I
> would see a role for the MalariaWorld community in reviewing / ranking
> papers and for our initiative to use new tools for impact assessment like
> pageviews, social media buzz etc. I think that the scientific communities
> will prove to be very able to review their members work and improve on it,
> if our gateway gives them the tools and access to each other and to
> (scientific) information. I am confident that @ccess can be a catalyst
> towards networked scientific communities, a source of information for
> non-scientific communities and a means for communication between scientists
> and citizens. That is new compared with for instance ResearchGate.
> When I see that ResearchGate .is very successful, so will we !
>
> We only have to generate enthusiasm, commitment and a selection of the
most usefu/ most tractable problems to start from. Then everything else
will follow. Yes, we shall get mocked/dismissed by some people to start
with but we'll gather others. Wikipedia has done a huge service in showing
the power of bottom up

> TOM
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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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