At 18:44 +0200 4/9/07, Egon Willighagen wrote: >On 9/4/07, Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Open Access gets more attention! >> > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/04/1341248 > >Go Peter!
The absurdities apply equally to VERY OLD articles, which should be well out of copyright. Thus I am looking into the early origins of carbocations as reactive intermediates, having traced the concept back to 1899, and a journal (and author!) long since deceased. Only the British Library still has it, but a request for an inter library loan to them is only granted if I agree to the BL's own copyright terms, which include my not being able to a) copy what they send me b) give my copy to anyone else c) have it translated for me (actually, its in English, but you know what I mean) d) or acquire it in digital form should I wish to pass it through OSCAR or other text mining. I will in fact go and try to collect it tomorrow. I will refuse to sign the copyright, asking only that I be allowed to read the paper document for 5 minutes and take notes. I fully expect the librarians to refuse this request, in which case an interesting stand-off will occur. I will let you know what happens! -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (020) 7594 5774 (Voice); +44 (0870) 132 3747 (eFax); [EMAIL PROTECTED] (iChat) http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. (Voracious anti-spam filter in operation for received email. If expected reply not received, please phone/fax). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss