[Open-access] Discussions with Elsevier on information-mining

Tue Mar 6 09:40:27 UTC 2012

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Tom Olijhoek <tom.olijhoek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter and others,
>
> I agree that all this is very very frustrating.
> Still your action of calling different publishers in public to express
> their views on textmining is the right strategy.
> In the first place we have to make this knowledge (on the policy for
> textmining) as public as possible.
> Also, reading several OA policy papers (boring) from the EU  and the Ghent
> declaration<http://www.openaire.eu/nl/component/content/article/76-highlights/223-seizing-the-opportunity-for-open-access-to-european-research-ghent-declaration-published>of the EU that was signed by
>  Gregor Hagedorn, Julius Kühn-Institute, BerlinFrederick Friend,
> University College London, Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de Montréal and John
> Willinsky, Stanford University it seems to me that we might find a strong
> ally in "OpenAire" and Neelie Kroes".
> We will need a lot of political pressure to achieve our goals and if we
> could get Neelie Kroes at our side it could make a difference.
> But perhaps I am naive to think that politics can actually change things ;)
> TOM
>
>
> Nothing wrong with naivety.

I have been invited to give a plenary lecture at a summit in Rome where
Neelie Kroes is speaking. I hope I can get time with her

-- 
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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