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.
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2AZ, UK.

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