[Open-access] How to Block Readcube and Why

[Ross Mounce]

They made an announcement about this back in February on the Readcube blog,
claiming it is to 'enhance your reading' without specifying the finer
details e.g. removal of direct real PDF links. That post is here:
http://blog.readcube.com/post/111276858602/wiley-and-readcube-team-up-to-enhance-your-reading


On 20 March 2015 at 10:00, Peter Murray-Rust <
peter.murray.rust at googlemail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:55 AM, glyn moody <glyn.moody at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> could somebody send me some examples of this please, especially if the
>> papers are definitely open access?  I'd like to dig deeper...
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> I am sure Ross will - (I actually just tweeted this)
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> It's ALL papers - OpenAccess, hybrid OpenAccess, paywalled.
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> A very loose analogy would be if a public facing organization for which we
> pay decided that all its material was only readable on Apple technology and
> that all users had to register with Apple. And that the product was less
> useful than previously
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> --
> 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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