Copyleft for experimental data
A quick note on an interesting point raised by Roger Peng:
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A quick note on an interesting point raised by Roger Peng:
This post at the Scholarly Kitchen touches on a number of arguments against mandatory CC-BY licensing. They’re all worth talking about, although none seem worth keeping science behind closed doors.
It’s been my experience that I wildly disagree with some of the fundamental values of the folks at Scholarly Kitchen, but I get a lot out of their posts and arguments. Their most recent post on a possible scandal at Pub Med Central is a case in point:
This article raises, for me at least, the interesting question of whether the large amount of research that remains uncited in medical/scientific literature is a good thing, a bad thing, or a neutral thing. I did a little more reading, and found some other posts on the topic.
This article is on, specifically, open access metadata, which the author rightly points out is needed to help readers actually locate and use open access articles.