On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 6:34 AM Thomas Krichel <kric...@openlib.org> wrote:
> brent...@uliege.be writes > > In practice, I doubt that access to current research is such a big > issue "NOW" as libraries and open access advocates make it appear to > be. The average academic only reads about one hour a week. In most > cases, if you know that a paper exist and who the author is, you can > contact the author to get the paper. Most authors will comply because > they crave citations. The open access situation will improve anyway > as the virus crises in the long run will leave institutions too weak > to afford the journal subscription folly. > > The idea that readers want a single paper is absolutely out of date in the digital century. I want all information on "face mask"s - it's been requested by a Cambridge colleague. >We need urgent expert help for two respiratory surgeons looking for evidence of mask effectiveness for typical procedures (collecting samples, intubation, and on to more invasive procedures). Happy to put experts in touch with them quickly. Evidence based, ideally peer reviewed rather than opinion. Thank you. Our system getpapers+AMI downloaded and analysed over 300 papers for this query in 5 minutes. See https://github.com/petermr/openVirus/blob/master/examples/n95/OVERVIEW.md and https://github.com/petermr/openVirus/blob/master/examples/n95 for the actual papers. Anyone can do this on their laptop. For free. (If anyone says "what about Copyright"? I'll raise the ghost of Queen Anne and her wrath. Copyright has no place in modern science/medicine).Except they won't get most of the relevant papers from Springer, Elsevier, T+F, Wiley, Sage, JSTOR, as my software does not go behind paywalls. It's more than that. Suppose I want all drugs related to chloroquine. The hydroxy derivative is called Plaquenil. I didn't know that. But the software developed by my group in Cambridge DOES know that. So we need to build an index of the chemistry in the literature. If we do that we'll have a lawyer's letter from Elsevier or Wiley in 5 minutes and have my university banning me from Knowledge research, (Don't think it doesn't happen - it does - see https://www.slideshare.net/petermurrayrust/disrupting-the-publisheracademic-complex for what they did to Chris Hartgerink , a PhD researcher at Tilburg, working on reproducible research. And I have other anecdotal evidence which I can't share.) . Again, Don't dictate what we want. Let us search the whole literature freely. Then we may need a new generation of publisher tools. And if you publishers actually have something to offer it will be decided on merit, not lawyers. P. -- "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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