As part of a project to automate the collection of Libre scholarly publications
and Libre material (http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/access/website ) I would
be grateful if list members could offer clarification on whether a particular
type of publication is Libre (BOAI-compliant). The manuscript in Pubmed
referenced by http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18442920 states:
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It is also labelled NIHPA Author Manuscripts
(A) Can I assume that this manuscript is pre-publication and therefore the
copyright resides with the authors and that the publisher can claim no rights
over anything in this manuscript, including images. (I'd like definitive
statements, not logical deductions, please)
(B) since it is a work of the US Government can I also assume it is in the
public domain and therefore free of copyright?
This is useful to our group in many ways even if it is not the final publisher
manuscript - for examples the images would be fully re-usable.
I am aware that even though it does not belong to any publisher , I am not
allowed to bulk download these manuscripts as the publishers place that
restriction on Pubmed. We have alternative approaches.
P.
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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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