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25. Emerging Models for Maintaining Scientific Data in the Public Domain
Pages 180-186

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From page 180...
... I webcast my graduate course class sessions openly on the Web. I publish my syllabi, class notes, course materials, and most of my peer-reviewed journal articles openly on the Web.
From page 181...
... Hope springs eternal. Perhaps in reporting the progress of past work when submitting research proposals to the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, scientists should be requested to list only those published articles that are available in openly accessible electronic archives.
From page 182...
... Most of these online archives deal with intellectual property issues on a journal-byjournal negotiation basis or have scientists submit original work directly to their archive. Scientists and graduate students in my research field typically need to access articles and datasets across a broad range of disciplines, including various branches of engineering, computer science, the social sciences, and even the legal literature.
From page 183...
... You need to automatically copy the journal articles to test the article against your profile conditions, extract and index the citations, as well as then host copies of the full-text PDF or postscript files. The developers have not bothered asking publishers for copyright permissions, and no publisher in the computer science community has yet to complain.
From page 184...
... FURTHER LEGAL DISCUSSION The computer science literature implementation of CiteSeer links to and maintains copies of over a halfmillion full-text online journal articles that may be freely accessed. Yet CiteSeer is in a different legal position to that of most other online archives.
From page 185...
... However, a similar exclusion for caching by the typical nonprofit service provider can be argued under other sections of the Copyright Act. Furthermore, if such a challenge were ever raised under the DMCA, CiteSeer operations could convert immediately to a free subscription and registration operational environment to subvert such a challenge.
From page 186...
... By example, the Creative Commons is working to facilitate the free availability of information, scientific data, art, and cultural materials by developing innovative, machine-readable licenses that individuals and institutions can attach to their worked 10For additional information, see http://www.creativecommons.org and Chapter 23 of these Proceedings, "New Legal Approaches in the Private Sector," by Jonathan Zittrain.


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