[Open-access] Repeat: Skype meeting tomorrow?

Fri Mar 2 09:25:55 UTC 2012

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Björn Brembs <b.brembs at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>
> >> Interesting: most people I meet are more
> >> interested in talking about publishing that
> >> telling me about their research, even though I
> >> ask. People are so enraged and frustrated, we need
> >> to 'force' the discussions back on science...
> >>
>
> > I don't understand. My science is stalled
> > because the publishers prevent
> > it. Are you suggesting we shouldn't worry about
> > our rights and should go
> > back to the lab? For me we have to get this
> > problem solved for all time as
> > fast as possible
>
> No, what I was saying is that now it has become so
> bad that we talk about the problem even though
> we're trying not to. It hasn't been that way
> before, something has changed.
>

I agree. The number of people angry with publishers  though fairly small is
risingly rapidly. 10 years ago publishers had our trust and most people
didn't think about the issues. Now the publishers have lost our trust. It
takes 10 years for a company (e.g. Microsoft) to recover lost trust. I
don't think publishers have got that time.

>
>
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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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