<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Mike Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@indexdata.com">mike@indexdata.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Folks,<br>
<br>
I have a new article in today's Guardian: The parable of the farmers<br>
and the Teleporting Duplicator<br>
        <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/feb/10/parable-farmers-teleporting-duplicator" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/feb/10/parable-farmers-teleporting-duplicator</a><br>

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It tries to convey the iniquity of the current publishing systems in a<br>
rather different way from the more cerebral and reasoned approached<br>
that we've mostly used, and may be effective in reaching some people<br>
who are less apt to be persuaded by argument.<br>
<br>
Hope it's helpful,<br>
        -- Mike.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Yes - parables are useful. I have added a comment. And A link to my post on Elsevier's policy on textmining (<a href="http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/02/10/elsevier-foobar-and-content-mining-%E2%80%93-yet-another-digital-land-grab-%E2%80%93-wake-up-academia-and-fight-or-surrender-for-ever/">http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/02/10/elsevier-foobar-and-content-mining-%E2%80%93-yet-another-digital-land-grab-%E2%80%93-wake-up-academia-and-fight-or-surrender-for-ever/</a> )<br>
<br>and <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/scholarly-pubs-%28%23226%29%20hauessler.pdf">http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/scholarly-pubs-%28%23226%29%20hauessler.pdf</a> where Nature are chargin ONE research group 85,000 USD to do textmining.<br>
<br>No - it's a gloomy day.<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069<br>