On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Stevan Harnad <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Mitar <[email protected]> wrote: > > See: *I don't want free online access: I want free online access with > re-use > rights!*<http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1092-I-dont-want-free-online-access-I-want-free-online-access-with-re-use-rights%21.html> > I can't let this torrent of hypotheticals and suppositions stand This includes completely misleading statements such as: "I don't want free online access: I want free online access with re-use rights!" *SH rebuttal : But re-use rights to only a fragment of the research in a field are near-useless...* "near-useless" is SH's judgment. He has no evidence for this and it's simply catstrophically wrong. I am starting right now to mine the bioscience literature. BOAI #openaccess is somewhere around 15-20 percent of currently published bioscience. That is enormously valuable as it stands. SH may describe my research as "near-useless" but I can extract high-quality publishable science, and I intend to publish it if it achieves a useful scientific gain. There are MANY cases where comprehensiveness is not required. Here are some of the things I and colleagues intend to do - they are NOT "near-useless" * compiling a vocabulary. This is of enormous value in nearly every field. 20% will contain all the commonly used vocabulary. The value of the long-tail is not critical in most fields * building a natural language toolkit. I have done this and it is widely used . I do not need the whole literature to do this. * creating a corpus for the community to use as a reference. This is extremely useful and has been plagued in the past by rights issues * extracting information from diagrams and figures. * building reference data. My group has built a system with half the world's published crystallographic data (200,000 structures) . For many purposes - docking drugs into enzymes, building nanomaterials , supporting Quantum mechanics calculations - it's essentially as valuable as the complete literature. * reference data. Enormously valuable. It is a great pity that Open Access has become embroiled in personal crusades rather than constructive discussion and accurate opinions. My research on 15-20% of the literature is not "near-useless" and this will become clear in the next 1-2 months > > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > -- 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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