[open-bibliography] Bibliography to X tool

Sun Oct 3 12:01:05 UTC 2010

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org> wrote:

>  Peter Murray-Rust writes
>
> > It is not too difficult to extract bibliography systematically and our
> > Crystaleye project (
> http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/crystaleye/summary/index.html
> > .does this. Its  pub-crawler software  systematically visits publisher
> sites
> > (http://bitbucket.org/ned24/pub-crawler ). We believe that publishers'
> > bibliographic information (journal/papewr/pages/authors is formally free
> of
> > IP restrictions - i.e.if we were taken to court we would win.). However
> the
> > actual practice is unclear and I don't particularly wish to go to court
> at
> > this moment.
>
>   But the title / authors / url information should be freely
>  usable.

I agree, but that doesn't stop publishers insisting it is theirs. We have to
change the culture so they agree it is Open.

Do you have data from that project available?
>

Yes

>
> >
>

-- 
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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