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For a description of what the Universal Access team does at Elsevier, please could I direct you to a recent interview with Richard Poyndor athttp://poynder.blogspot.com/2012/02/elseviers-alicia-wise-on-rwa-west-wing.html . I can indeed help with content mining policy queries, and can get you pointed in the right direction for other queries. Iâve picked up that you are a bit (!!) cross with us about text mining, and would be very happy to arrange a call for you and our relevant people. It appears that in the past we have connected you with the app marketplace team rather than the text mining teams. Please email me directly at a.w...@elsevier.com if you would like for me to set this up? Thanks.  Regarding the manuscript - you asked whether the language you cite originated with Elsevier. We have various agreements with NIH, so either the lawyers for NIH or the lawyers for Elsevier came up with this language. This footnote looks like a standard bit of text that may appear on all the manuscripts we deposit in PMC on behalf of authors â I would need to check. The intention of such a footnote would be to signal to the reader that they are looking at something other than the final version of the article.  With kind wishes,  Alicia  From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Peter Murray-Rust Sent: 15 February 2012 08:57 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); open-acc...@lists.okfn.org Subject: [GOAL] Re: Permissions attaching to pre-publication material   On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) <a.w...@elsevier.com> wrote: Hi Peter,  This article was published by Elsevier, and written by an NIH employee. The work of US government employees does not attract copyright in the US, and so the manuscript is indeed in the public domain. We would, however, suggest that you contact the authors as this is in any case polite but there also could be restrictions on the use of the images. Thank you for answering this initial question quickly and clearly. I note that you are "Director of Universal Access". As you may know I have found it almost impossible to get timely and useful information from Elsevier. Can I assume that Universal Access offers a formal contact point where readers and potential authors can expect to get questions on contractual and legal issues answered. Can I also assume that the Office of Universal Access was responsible for the document: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/contentmining and that if I direct questions to your office I can expect replies. The manuscript that you agree is Public Domain contains the phrase: " Footnotes This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. " Could you indicate whether this phrase originated in part or whole with Elsevier. It seems very unlikely to have been written by the author - he does not have "customers". It seems unlikely that the NIH's Pubmed facility has inserted this as the phraseology "our customers" seems out of place. Therefore I am assuming that this "unedited manuscript" actually contains material inserted by Elsevier. Could you indicate whether Elsevier "requires" authors or Pubmed to insert additional information or phraseology into the "author's manuscript". I would also be grateful to know what "Universal Access" is, and where it is defined. Peter Murray-Rust With kind wishes,  Alicia   Dr Alicia Wise Director of Universal Access Elsevier I The Boulevard I Langford Lane I Kidlington I Oxford I OX5 1GB P: +44 (0)1865 843317 I M: +44 (0) 7823 536 826 I E: a.w...@elsevier.com I Twitter: @wisealic    From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Peter Murray-Rust Sent: 13 February 2012 09:08 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Permissions attaching to pre-publication material  As part of a project to automate the collection of Libre scholarly publications and Libre material (http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/access/website ) I would be grateful if list members could offer clarification on whether a particular type of publication is Libre (BOAI-compliant). The manuscript in Pubmed referenced by http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18442920 states: Footnotes This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. It is also labelled NIHPA Author Manuscripts (A) Can I assume that this manuscript is pre-publication and therefore the copyright resides with the authors and that the publisher can claim no rights over anything in this manuscript, including images. (I'd like definitive statements, not logical deductions, please) (B) since it is a work of the US Government can I also assume it is in the public domain and therefore free of copyright? This is useful to our group in many ways even if it is not the final publisher manuscript - for examples the images would be fully re-usable. I am aware that even though it does not belong to any publisher , I am not allowed to bulk download these manuscripts as the publishers place that restriction on Pubmed. We have alternative approaches. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 Elsevier Limited. Registered Office: The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, O xford, OX5 1GB, United Kingdom, Registration No. 1982084 (England and Wales).  _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org 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 Elsevier Limited. Registered Office: The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, O xford, OX5 1GB, United Kingdom, Registration No. 1982084 (England and Wales). 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