Peter Murray-Rust [PM-R] replied:
"Stevan Harnad... has been consistent in arguing
the logic [of what comes with the OA
territory]... and I agree with the logic...
[but]... several repository managers at the JISC
meeting [said] I could not have permission to do
[such things] with their current content. I asked
'can my robots download and mine the content in
your current open access repository of theses?' -
No. 'Can you let me have some chemistry theses
from your open access collection so I can
data-mine them?' - No - you will have to ask the
permission of each author individually.
The OpenDOAR repository policies tool tends to act towards
over-cautiousness in the policies that they suggest for data and document
reuse.
The current policies that they produce have options to explicitly allow
services� that do full text indexing and citation analysis, BUT THAT IS
ALL.
By enumerating the potential allowable services they are effectively
stifling innovation and research, and that is a BAD thing. The last thing
that OA advocates ought to do is build up ANOTHER rights-withholding
infrastructure.
I do hope that this a a short-sighted transition phenomenon, but it
should certainly be addressed now (and strongly).
--
Les Carr
Received on Tue Jun 12 2007 - 19:01:57 BST