Murray-Rust on open scholarship

Peter Murray-Rust has blogged a preview of his talk at Open Scholarship: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories (Glasgow, October 18-20, 2006).  Excerpt:

Data as well as text is now ESSENTIAL - we should stop using "full-text" as it is dangerously destructive in science....

Need automated, instant, access to and re-use of millions of published digital objects. The Harnad model of self-archiving on individual web pages with copyright retained by publishers is useless for modern robotic science....

Successes:

• Blue Obelisk - communal Open Source (home, license) and Open Data group Jmol. JFDI
• PubChem - (Wikipedia, home page) and pubmed (UKPMC should be exciting)
• SPECTRa : JISC. Collaborative project to reposit chemistry at source.
• Chemical blogosphere

Other initiatives:

• SPARC - Open Data mailing list

What must be done: ...[2] Insist that all authors' works are their copyright and re-usable under commons-like license....[5] Pay publishers for what added value they provide, not what value they control. Create a market where publishers have to compete with other ways of solving the problem (Google, folksonomies, etc.)...