I touch on the text mining etc. needs of researchers in two recent blog entries:
- FREE THE ARTICLES! (Full-text for researchers & scientists and their
machines) http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/04/free-articles-full-text-for-researchers.html
- New Open Access Criterion: Support access by machines (m2m)
http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-open-access-criterion-support.html
-Glen
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>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> writes:
Jonathan> An announcement from the DOAJ that we got at the
Jonathan> Code4Lib Journal, since we're listed in the DOAJ.
Jonathan> I forward it to you all because it's related to the
Jonathan> on-going discussion some of us are having about "how the
Jonathan> heck can we get our software to find open access
Jonathan> versions of articles." Certainly not close to a fix-all
Jonathan> even if their project is succesful, but addresses one
Jonathan> component of one subset of open access material.
Jonathan> Jonathan
Jonathan> doaj-team wrote:
>> Lund Sweden 23 April 2008 Important news for all publishers who
>> have journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals
>> (DOAJ)
>>
>> Dear publishers of journals listed in the Directory of Open
>> Access Journals (DOAJ)
>>
>> We --the team behind the DOAJ-- are approaching you to inform
>> about two important issues.
>>
>> Firstly, as you probably are aware of, there is a growing
>> discussion and attention to open access to scholarly
>> information in the research community. The current discussion
>> is concentrating on open access in a broader sense than just
>> free access to journal articles.
>>
>> In order for research to be really open, researchers need more
>> than just to get free access to the articles -- that is more
>> than free-to-read. Researchers are increasingly demanding and
>> expecting to be able to reuse not only the text in various
>> ways, but increasingly to be able to do text- and data mining
>> in order to more efficiently extract and discover fractions of
>> the content (i.e. for instance acronyms for genes, proteins,
>> abbreviations etc.) and to uncover hidden relations between
>> such fractions by automated computing.
>>
>> In order for open access journals to be even more useful and
>> thus receive more exposure and provide more value to the
>> research community it is very important that open access
>> journals offer standardized, easily retrievable information
>> about what kinds of reuse are allowed.
>>
>> Creative Commons offers a number of licenses that in a
>> standardized way makes it very easy for content providers to
>> offer information about these issues. More information about
>> this under Step 1 below.
>>
>> Secondly, SPARC Europe and The Directory of Open Access
>> Journals (operated by Lund University, Sweden) have entered an
>> agreement about introducing a certification scheme for Open
>> Access journals, the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access
>> Journals.
>>
>> The intention of the scheme is to motivate open access journals
>> to deliver metadata to DOAJ. The DOAJ team will then convert
>> the metadata into standardized XML-format and OAI-compliant
>> format, which will further increase the visibility of articles
>> and provide means for the easiest possible dissemination thus
>> reaching more readers, attracting more authors, gaining more
>> prestige and impact.
>>
>> The team behind the DOAJ will offer various forms of assistance
>> and guidance in this respect.
>>
>> What are the advantages of having the SPARC Europe Seal?
>>
>> Improved information as to what users are allowed to do with
>> papers published in your journal(s).
>>
>> Possible long-term archiving of your content, which makes
>> publishing in your journal more attractive to authors.
>>
>> Better exposure as a high-quality journal based on state-of-the
>> art dissemination technologies.
>>
>> The DOAJ team converts your metadata and makes the metadata
>> harvestable, which means the widest possible dissemination and
>> thus increased usage and impact.
>>
>>
>> How to be approved:
>>
>> Step 1:
>>
>> Choose the Creative Commons License CC-BY license.
>>
>>
>>
>> In order to qualify for the SPARC Europe Seal you must apply
>> the CC-BY license, which is the most user friendly license,
>> allowing among other things for long-term preservation and
>> text- and data-mining
>>
>>
>> How to choose the CC-BY license:
>>
>> Go to the Creative Commons (CC) web site
>> (http://creativecommons.org/about/license/) and copy the CC-BY
>> Icon -
>>
>> -- you might as well consult this:
>> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing .
>>
>> Put the CC-BY icon on the homepage of your journal(s) and
>> preferably on each article in your journal.
>>
>> Go to DOAJ web site (http://www.doaj.org) , login to "For
>> journal owners", click on "license info" and choose CC-license
>> for your journal(s).
>>
>> The CC icon will be shown automatically in DOAJ.
>>
>> Step 2:
>>
>> Your journal(s) shall continuously provide DOAJ with metadata
>> for all of your content.
>>
>>
>>
>> How to provide us with the metadata:
>>
>> Right now DOAJ tools allow you to do the following: upload
>> article by article filling a web form upload files containing
>> one or more records. The files must conform with the DOAJ XML
>> Schema specification (read more at:
>> http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=070507).
>>
>> These two features can be found once you have logged in to "For
>> journal owners" on DOAJ web site (http://www.doaj.org).
>>
>> Once we have your content (metadata on article level) in DOAJ,
>> the content become OAI harvestable and distributed in an XML
>> format to the rest of the world.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> The DOAJ Team
>>
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