In the BOAI, the content to which OA should apply is described as follows: "The literature that should be freely accessible online is that which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment. Primarily, this category encompasses their peer-reviewed journal articles, but it also includes any unreviewed preprints that they might wish to put online for comment or to alert colleagues to important research findings."
This is a handy page to keep at hand and to refer to: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm (unfortunately, the BOAI site itself, http://www.soros.org/openaccess, is often exceedingly slow and therefore difficult to consult if you don't have a lot of time). Jan On 9 May 2012, at 16:48, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Jan Velterop <velte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jeffrey, > > All research articles in BMC journals are OA, BOAI-compliant CC-BY. A few > journals (six of them, to be precise, http://arthritis-research.com/ , > http://breast-cancer-research.com/, http://ccforum.com/ > ,http://genomebiology.com/ , http://genomemedicine.com/ , and > http://stemcellres.com/ ) contain non-research articles, e.g. commissioned > Reviews, Commentaries, Meeting reports, Viewpoints, and those articles – only > those – are subject to a subscription charge. > > Jan > > > Thanks both of you, > This is a good illustration that Open Content Mining does not necessarily all > of the lierature to be fully CC-BY. It requires clear labelling of the subset > that is BOAI-compliant. There is enough material - I believe - in BMC and > PLoS papers to develop some useful science. And the toll-access journals will > miss out on the citations. > > This is the problem with UK/PMC (as Casey Bergman and others have pointed > out) - it is difficult to find the content that is minable other than BMC and > PLoS. > > P. > > -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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