[Open-access] A map of publicly funded work in the UK for a campaign for open license for publicly funded work

Wed Dec 3 12:47:08 UTC 2014

Thank you Peter

I think one of the strongest arguments to make is the economic one although
I have little knowledge of it, can you suggest sources of information for
this?

Many thanks

John

On 3 December 2014 at 12:34, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> GREAT idea John,
>
> I'd start with areas where creators' right don't muddy the water - this is
> science and public government. I calculate that we spend 500 Billion or
> more on public science worldwide (
> http://www.slideshare.net/petermurrayrust/osbrazil ) and we lose a large
> percentage of that. If governments want to generate new wealth , then
> starting with opening up science is close to a no-brainer.
>
> I'm with you - and have committed TheContentMine (contentmine.org) to
> mine facts directly into Wikidata.
>
>
>
>
> --
> 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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