We are now at the point where anything less than full BOAI-compliance is seriously holding science and medicine back. We must have immediate
"free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software,..." We've just run a workshop in Edinburgh in the Neuroscience group who are, inter alia, looking at Systematic review of animal experiments. One senior post doc has spent the last year reading 30,000 papers (sic) - that's one every 3 minutes - classifying them into properly reported and badly reported tests. Our (Open) contentmine.org Text and Data Mining software can do this in a few seconds per paper. But ONLY if we are legally allowed to do this; and the only licences that allow this explicitly are CC-BY or CC0. (I have spent a considerable time on the legal aspects). The main STM publishers are challenging the right to Mine Content and throwing money at lobbying MEPs and European Commission to have restrictive clauses added to potential leglislation. The primary defence against this in almost all countries is to have science and medicine published as BOAI-compliant CC-BY or CC0. Calling anything else "Open Access" is simply giving huge political support to the STM publishing industry and preventing scientists using modern tools. P. -- 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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