[GOAL] Re: Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and other intellectual property matters

2012-03-26 Thread pippa.sm...@gmail.com
An interesting observation: are people paying for content or for a service? For example EBSCO are launching a medline package - the subscriber will get full text access to any article indexed in Medline. A very neat idea that I can see being very attractive to medical researchers. But quite a lot o

[GOAL] Re: Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and other intellectual property matters

2012-03-26 Thread pippa.sm...@gmail.com
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[GOAL] Re: Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and other intellectual property matters

2012-03-26 Thread gingras . yves
Surlignage "pippa.sm...@gmail.com" : > > As a comparator, I can get water free from rivers but I'm happy to pay > someone to clean it up and pipe it to me. It seems to be a better comparison is between choosing free water from tap and pay for bottled water. :) Yves Gingras ---

[GOAL] Re: Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and other intellectual property matters

2012-03-26 Thread gingras.y...@uqam.ca
Surlignage "pippa.smart at gmail.com" : > > As a comparator, I can get water free from rivers but I'm happy to pay > someone to clean it up and pipe it to me. It seems to be a better comparison is between choosing free water from tap and pay for bottled water. :) Yves Gingras

[GOAL] Re: Tireless Ad Hoc Critiques of OA Study After OA Study: Will Wishful Thinking Ever Cease?

2012-03-26 Thread Stefan Busch
To my knowledge the only serious studies that did not find an OA citation advantage are those conducted by Phil Davies, e.g. http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2011/03/29/fj.11-183988.full.pdf+htm l . While the selection of articles here was randomized, the selection of journals was not. The "part

[GOAL] Re: Tireless Ad Hoc Critiques of OA Study After OA Study: Will Wishful Thinking Ever Cease?

2012-03-26 Thread Stefan Busch
To my knowledge the only serious studies that did not find an OA citation advantage are those conducted by Phil Davies, e.g. http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2011/03/29/fj.11-183988.full.pdf+htm l . While the selection of articles here was randomized, the selection of journals was not. The "part

[GOAL] Open Access Understanding

2012-03-26 Thread Constantinescu Nicolaie
Dear collegues, The moment has come when all the thoughts, ideas, the initiatives and the best experiences concerning Open Access to find a streamlined expression capable to set in motion a vector for actions in Romania. To this purpose, The Understanding of Open Access has been launched. It's a d

[GOAL] Open Access Understanding

2012-03-26 Thread Constantinescu Nicolaie
Dear collegues, The moment has come when all the thoughts, ideas, the initiatives and the best experiences concerning Open Access to find a streamlined expression capable to set in motion a vector for actions in Romania. To this purpose, The Understanding of Open Access has been launched. It's a d

[GOAL] Re: Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and other intellectual property matters

2012-03-26 Thread Arthur Sale
Yes Sally, that is the rationale that I would use were I in that situation.  It is analogous to a newspaper cutting service, or to writing a commissioned report which cites freely available articles as well as ones behind a toll barrier. The user is paying for my work in compilation.   Arthur

[GOAL] Re: Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and other intellectual property matters

2012-03-26 Thread Arthur Sale
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[GOAL] Re: Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and other intellectual property matters

2012-03-26 Thread Rzepa Henry
> > this has screenshots of the BL charges. I entered into considerable > correspondence and I think the conclusions was that it was too much trouble > to work out what articles were open access so it was easier t charge for > all of them. I have no idea where the money ended up. > > The BL did s

[GOAL] Re: Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and other intellectual property matters

2012-03-26 Thread Rzepa Henry
> > this has screenshots of the BL charges. I entered into considerable > correspondence and I think the conclusions was that it was too much trouble > to work out what articles were open access so it was easier t charge for > all of them. I have no idea where the money ended up. > > The BL did s