On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Jan Velterop <[email protected]> wrote: The real issue is to do with usage rights. Can any article that is presented as being OA just be read with human eyes, or also be re-used and used for text-mining? The answer in my view should be 'yes', re-use and text-mining, too, whether the article is in a repository, a personal web site, or a publisher's site.
Yes  There may be technical issues to overcome, but there is scant reason to overcome those for so-called OA articles if text-mining is not allowed. By the way, a format converter to assist text-mining can be found here: http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk . We have developed something similar and it is Open Source, which means that there can be a collaborative effort to extend and develop it.  The web version works on individual articles, but I gather that batch processing (of the content of a repository, say) is possible, albeit at a very small fee per article. But these kind of tools don't make articles BOAI-compliant OA; if articles are not, permission must still be sought. I can understand those who regard OA pretty much useless without the rights to re-use and text-mine. Exactly right. I am developing the tools on BMC articles as those are completely BOAI-compliant. I can make the extracted science completely Open. I cannot do that with ACS.  -- 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
