Lovely response, Peter.
And, yes, let us remember the example set by Latin America, and in
particular by Amelica. They are now the true leaders of open access.
Incidentally, everyone should read this:
https://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/view/347. It is an
important article co-authored by Dominique Babini and Humberto Debat.
Jean-Claude Guédon
On 2020-03-31 11:59 a.m., Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:21 PM Jean-Claude Guédon
<jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca
<mailto:jean.claude.gue...@umontreal.ca>> wrote:
One last note: OA will succeed, despite what Stevan says. Let us
shape OA the right way, and certainly not in the way supported by
Elsevier: in their view, OA is a "charitable" gesture that is
applied only in extreme cases. The reality is that the Great
Conversation of science constantly needs it.
We need clear messages. Open by default. Friction costs resources and
lives.
I don't think people realise how serious friction is in the modern world.
If you have to write to an author the friction is absolute.
If you have to read a licence the friction is absolute.
If you have to work out where to find the full content is from a
landing page the friction is large.
If you have to parse PDFs or publisher HTML the friction is massive
If you have to copy text the friction is absolute.
If you don't know what you are getting , that's friction.
If you get Dublin-Core or Highwire metadata , it's out of date,
undocumented, ambiguous and serious friction.
If you crawl UK universities for theses that's Infinite friction.
If you crawl US universities for theses that's even worse than infinite.
As an example we are working on design and use of masks for COVID-19
and actually supporting their manufacture. The best known one is N95.
I immediately go to Wikidata. This disambiguates all other "N95" so we
have a precise ontological object which machines can compute in
SPARQL. Wikipedia will be as correct and as uptodate as any other
authority. That's where the modern knowledge world is. By using
Wikidata I reduce almost all friction.
See our tutorial example at:
https://github.com/petermr/openVirus/blob/master/examples/n95/OVERVIEW.md
where over 300 papers were analysed in great detail in 5 minutes.
Volunteers welcome.
My sources are now:
EuropePMC, which mirrors PMC and adds to it.
biorxiv/medrxiv which require me to write serious scrapers so huge
friction but our group will try to do it
Redalyc (Mexico) really excited about this as it's a real example of
no fees - that Latin America has pioneered so well. LatA
HAL (FR) frictionless
In the UK can I use CORE? "Please register to receive an API key ". I
don't use services that require APIs so I haven't used CORE. Why is
this necessary? I bet it's to do with IP somewhere. Also CORE is
non-commercial. So, slightly regretfully, I shan't use CORE.
The right way to go is OA free for authors and for readers, which
means that it must be subsidized. But that is all right because
scientific research is subsidized and scientific communication is
an integral part of scientific research (and it costs only 1% of
the rest of research).
Yes. I suggest we humbly approach LatAm and other parts of the Global
South where we may learn what the real purpose of publishing is. It's
so people can READ things, whereas megapub451 builds systems to stop
people reading.
Let's glory the reader. Let's assess scholarship by how many citizens
OUTSIDE academia read our work. Because there are a huge number of
smart educated people throughout the world who are - literally -
killed by the present system.
"When I am dead, I hope it may be said. His sins were scarlet, but his
books were read." - Hilaire Belloc.
https://github.com/petermr/openVirus - we now have a wiki where you
can leave messages (I think)
--
"I always retain copyright in my papers, and nothing in any contract I
sign with any publisher will override that fact. You should do the same".
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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