[Open-access] Crowdsourcing request + BMJ OA Policy

Peter Murray-Rust pm286 at cam.ac.uk
Thu Mar 20 16:02:13 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:06 PM, ANDREW Theo <Theo.Andrew at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Hi Jenny,
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> Thanks for stopping by the spreadsheet and filling in a few rows - much
> appreciated!
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> There appears to be a few gremlins in Google's servers which are affecting
> the drop down lists. Very frustrating.
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> I've turned off rejection for invalid data and replaced it with a warning
> rule which seems to have fixed things. I'll now go through and update your
> BMJ records.
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> The licence information is proving to be a really interesting area. A lot
> of publishers seemingly don't like CC-BY because of the impact is has on
> their reprint sales.
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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 Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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