[Open-access] Authors' manuscripts

Wed Feb 15 14:10:53 UTC 2012

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:05 PM, cameronneylon.net <cn at cameronneylon.net>wrote:

> Side question that relates to this that I was asked today:
>
> Has anyone done article level page-rank style analysis across a good
> proportion of  a significant corpus. I know that both Eigenfactor and the
> MESUR project were talking about doing this but both have to some extent
> been distracted into other things. My answer was - this would be trivially
> easy if we had the citation graph. Has anyone got any good pointers on the
> most recent work on this space and the limitations of what we can do with
> the available citation data?
>
> What do you want? A statis corpus on which the technology can be
developed? Or an ongoing project to update people? If the former then maybe
we can extract from the Open Subset of PMC and similar.

(yet another of the 101 reasons- we should put these on the wiki)

>
> > "2. Content in Opus is made freely available for non-commercial
> > private study or research."
> > from http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/services/eprints/enduser-licence.pdf
> >
> > Opus is the University of Bath's institutional repository. 'Policies'
> > at other institutions may vary.
>
> If any of you meet me in a bar remind me to tell you an interesting story
> about Opus and its licensing arrangements that illustrates the depth of the
> problem….
>
> Is it specific to Bath or is it general? (If the latter then we may
encounter it elsewhere) If the former then ye, it's about the human race in
general

-- 
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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