[Open-access] Crowdsourcing request + BMJ OA Policy

Fri Mar 21 09:21:11 UTC 2014

Thanks for all the work you are doing in helping to analyse the Wellcome APC data.  The Google docs crowdsourcing document is getting well-populated.  See: https://t.co/nYmiX1aJ0C

In terms of the licence, please remember that the Wellcome CC-BY condition only came into effect from 1st April, and it was for papers submitted after this date.  ie A paper published in, say, October, but submitted before April 1st, would NOT need to have a CC-BY licence.

Robert

From: peter.murray.rust at googlemail.com [mailto:peter.murray.rust at googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Peter Murray-Rust
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To: Stuart Lawson
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Subject: Re: [Open-access] Crowdsourcing request + BMJ OA Policy

Great,
As you will see I am detecting papers in the spreadsheet that are still behind a paywall. Anyone can do this - all they have to do is find a paper, search for the title in Google and go to the PUBLISHER site. (Most papers are in Europe/PubMedCentral but that does not excuse them being behind a publisher paywall. If you only find the PMC site, click on the FullText button.

It's boring work, but valuable. I do it sitting in front of telly.

If you find a problem mail me, or this list giving full evidence (screenshots - since some publishers rapidly change the site when alerted).

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Stuart Lawson <stuart.a.lawson at gmail.com<mailto:stuart.a.lawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
I'm working my way through the PLOS journals on the spreadsheet, to get the straightforward ones done...

Stuart

On 20 March 2014 17:02, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk<mailto:pm286 at cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
I think we have to do a crowdsourcing on the Wellcome spreadsheet. (You'll see from my blog that some Elsevier papers are still behind paywalls). I'd suggest we extract:

* number of copies (this is a problem as some copies are OA and some are not. Generally we need at least (a) Pubmed and (b) the formal journal . A third option might be Science Direct.
* for each copy analyse (a) HTML(PDF) - they are often different
* for each of those look for:
   "Open Access" or publisher equivalent (e.g. ACS "Author Choice")
   licence (if any)
   all-rights-reserved
   copyright

I think we can later build crawlers and scrapers for this.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:33 PM, ANDREW Theo <Theo.Andrew at ed.ac.uk<mailto:Theo.Andrew at ed.ac.uk>> wrote:
>Yes, and we have to fight this. Noticed that Wiley seems to have slipped back. And the problem is that they market CC-NC to academics as >being in authors' interests.

Peter is right.  Currently we have no data on what type of licences people are choosing. The Wellcome Trust ask for CC BY, but it is starting to look like many of the authors they fund are not choosing this.

It is very worrying.

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