CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Biological Research with Open-Access Publications (OAP)
Part of the joint conference on
Text in Biology: Biological Research with Information Extraction
& Open-Access Publications (BRIE & OAP) 2001
A satellite event at the ISMB'01 conference
Copenhagen, Denmark
Tivoli Gardens
July 26, 2001
9 AM to 5 PM
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BACKGROUND
Copyright on scientific communications (published articles and so
forth) belongs to publishing companies and not to authors, for most
publications. Scientists wishing to share relevant communications,
even their own in some cases, face legal challenges from publishers.
Publishing companies charge expensive subscriptions to access
scientific communications. Scientists in developing countries and
poorly-endowed institutions, although intellectually on par with
their peers, are severely handicapped by this.
With a limited budget, to which journals should one subscribe?
This may be the result of a competitive marketplace for readership,
but is there an alternative to profit-based publications? Should
there be? Can an alternative publication model be profitable for a
publisher?
Additionally, even with the advent of computers, databases, and the
World Wide Web, scientific communications are published as they were
100 years ago: as linear, printable text. And they are archived this
way. While this makes good reading, it is not the best format for
information retrieval or extraction.
All of these problems restrict information retrieval, extraction, and
scientific inquiry. How do we resolve them? As the ultimate solution,
should future communications be published in an "open-access, global
knowledge-base"? Before or after information extraction techniques
are applied?
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AIMS
We identify several obstacles to information retrieval and
extraction: copyright restrictions, costly subscriptions, artificial
segregation of communications, and archival of information in a
manner not suited for information retrieval and extraction. And we
seek to discuss the concept of "open-access publications" and if it
is a viable solution to these problems. OAP also serves as a "Birds
of a Feather" (BoF) meeting for Bioinformatics.org, an organization
committed to freedom and openness in the field of bioinformatics.
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SCOPE
We are seeking several speakers who can address how the above
problems might be solved. Topics may include author-owned copyrights,
free or inexpensive subscriptions, uniform and multiple categories
for communications, and archival of information in a manner suited
for information retrieval and extraction, for example, knowledge
bases.
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SUBMISSION
Platform presentations only
Submit abstracts by: June 15, 2001
Decisions by: June 30, 2001
Submissions to: brie-oap-01_at_bioinformatics.org
Acceptable formats: PDF, postscript, RTF, MS Word
Length: one page maximum
PLEASE: include name, contact details, affiliation
WEBSITE
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