[Open-access] Crowdsourcing request + BMJ OA Policy

[Stuart Lawson]

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> 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> 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
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