Andras, Thanks very much - this is a very useful statement to comment on.
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Andras Holl <[email protected]> wrote: Dear All, The thing whether Open Access relates to an individual article or a whole journal is not clear. Agreed - The normal practice is that a journal publisher will state the rights for the whole article. the problem arises where authors create different rights for a single article, normally by "hybrid Gold OA". The rights here are usually not clearly spelled out on the article. It is usually not even clear this is a hybrid article, or when this is made clear (with, say a star "Free Content" or some such phrase - it varies by publisher) what the rights are. The phrase "Free content", "Author Choice" is publisher-specific and very hard to interpret, even by human.  Does libre OA mean that anyone is free to redistribute the whole journal, or only one, a few article? libre OA means almost nothing. BOAI means that anyone can re-use the content in whatever way they like. Text mining rights are meaningful only for the whole journal. This is probably true in practice until there are machine-readable licences. My opinion that they should be granted Thank you!  - the problem I have is not with the rights. It is with the practice. The OA journal I manage has every article available in several formats - LaTeX, PS. PDF, HTML - some of these are generated on-the-fly, some static. Indiscriminate harvesting is a prolem for me. What I would like to have is some method, which is a mix of robots.txt and htaccess, maybe with a touch of legal content about the scope of possible use of harvested content. That is exactly what we are doing in our Manifesto on Open Content Mining. Trying to make everything clear  So, in my opinion, the real worls situation is even more complex than either gratis or libre. There are many flavors of OA, and I do not think that sticking to the bOAI definition would do much good. BOAI is the only current specification that allows textmining but I agree, it would be better to have other documents. I believe that it is meaningful to mine toll-access documents and we need clear licences for this. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ] _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
