[Open-access] Crowdsourcing request + BMJ OA Policy

Thu Mar 20 17:02:13 UTC 2014

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> 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.

>
> --
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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