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Rolf Heuer goes APE for open access
There has been surprisingly little written on the web about Rolf Heuer's keynote speech at the Academic Publishing in Europe (APE 2008) conference in Berlin last week. Thankfully though, Peter Murray-Rust and the SCOAP3 initiative have come to our rescue. In fact, Peter reports that there was no wireless and no electricity at the meeting venue, so that explains the paucity of live blogging reports!
Heuer, who is an editorial board member of PMC Physics A and will takeover from Robert Aymar as Director General of CERN in January 2009, delivered his presentation entitled: "Innovation in Scholarly Communication: Vision and Projects from High Energy Physics" (pdf link, 7MB)
The presentation is particularly interesting as it looks not only at the SCOAP3 project and its plan to turn an entire field open access, but also it outlines what they plan to do with this new corpus of OA material. This includes commenting, tagging, text and data-mining, new bibliometrics to measure impact, aggregation of related material and the preservation and re-use of experimental data.
If anyone thinks that Open Acess is just reading a pdf for free on the web, then this presentation shows the world of possibilities that opens up when the entire dataset is interoperable, free of copyright and re-use retrictions and available to all.
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