[open-bibliography] Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access

Jim Pitman pitman at stat.Berkeley.EDU
Wed Oct 26 20:51:54 UTC 2011


William Waites <ww at styx.org> wrote:

> The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical
> journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed
> scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access
> online...
> http://royalsociety.org/news/Royal-Society-journal-archive-made-permanently-free-to-access/

Nice to see. But note "free" not "open" according to

http://royalsociety.org/about-us/website/terms-conditions/

The metadata would make a great exercise set for BibSoup. 
But it is not clear to me from http://royalsocietypublishing.org/search how we should go about gaining
access in bulk.
Anybody willing to do an IsItOpenData exercise for the bulk metadata, and try to obtain some agreement 
to access it on an ongoing basis? 

--Jim

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