[Open-access] Crowdsourcing request + BMJ OA Policy

Fri Mar 21 09:15:28 UTC 2014

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>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> 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
>> Reader in Molecular Informatics
>> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>> University of Cambridge
>> CB2 1EW, UK
>> +44-1223-763069
>>
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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