[LIS-Forum] Re: Open Research Metrics

Dear Prof. McCullam: Thanks very much. Why are not chemists, biologists, and engineers follow the world's computer scientists and adopt mass civil disobedience [a concept perfected by Mahatma Gandhi]? Or why cannot scientists all over the developing world do the same? I am forwarding this to several discussion lists in India. Regards. Arun --- Andrew McCallum wrote:

Computer Science researchers practiced mass civil disobedience, and simply posted their papers on their personal web pages in violation of the copyright.

It became just a common practice, that the publishers changed their policies.

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Dear Prof. McCullam:

Thanks very much for the quick response. Don't you face resistance from journal publishers and

On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: threats

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based on copyright law when you include papers published in scholarly journals?

Many researchers in India do not post their papers (full text) on to institutional archives as they are not sure about what the journal publishers would do!

Best regards.

Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]

--- Andrew McCallum wrote:

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On Dec 11, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote:

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Dear Professor McCallum:

I want to know more about Rexa and visit the site. Please give me the url. Can we replicate Rexa for other areas, especially chemistry, where leading journal publishers are unwilling to allow Open Access?

http://rexa.info

If you could point me at Chemistry publications sites that allow spidering, I'd be happy to add them to our list.

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What percentage of the over seven million papers in Rexa are full text, are from Indian institutions?

Only about 300k are full text now. Getting more in there is simple matter of spidering and pushing the PDFs through our pipeline. We have all the infrastructure in place to do this now, and will begin a major run in the coming month.

Best wishes, Andrew

-- Andrew McCallum mccallum@cs.umass.edu Associate Professor www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum Comp Sci Dept, UMass Amherst 413-545-1323 (w)

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