On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:58 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Good evening! > > Firstly,. If I have upset Bernard Rentier and maligned his achievements it was not my intention and I apologize. There is much to admire about what he and his repo have done, but it has limitations and I have pointed some of them out. As I am no longer an employed academic I am debarred from using many of the contents.
> I don't want to get involved too deeply in such a sterile discussion. It > takes us nowhere. > I have tried very hard on this list to be constructive. It is my nature, and I am successful on other lists. Here it is difficult to have a balanced discussion. I shall keep trying because there are almost no placesLiege have done, b where the general population can make their views known about Open Access and this is one of the few. >>I don't want to look overly proud of my accomplishments and those of my ORBi team, but if I search for Peter Murray-Rust's publications in Cambridge's IR, I can neither search by author nor by publisher, nor can I tell what is OA from what is not. It would be nice of him to get things working a little bit at home before pointing at what he considers our shortcomings. It is completely unfair to attack me for the shortcomings of Cambridge University. I am no longer employed by them (I am retired) and I have never had any role in running the repository. >> May I ask him how many papers he published with ACS, how many of these are OA and how can I access them? Same for the entire University of Cambridge? I have not submitted or published any first-author papers with them in the last five years. (I have been included as a co-author on - I think one or two - papers published by other authors). Almost all my first-author papers in the last five years have been Gold (author-paid) papers - about 15 in the last two and in press. Three have been published with publishers who agreed to make them freely available and failed to honour their pledge. I deliberately publish in Gold journals rather than in ACS. I challenge the policy of the ACS in my blog so I hope this answers your criticism. I am glad that you have found my suggestion of a high-level meeting valuable and I wish you success. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust Emeritus Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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