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Open Science in name only?

By Deepak Singh | Published: April 5, 2008

Peter Murray-Rust has a post noting that Pubmed Central has serious limitations

You can’t mine the data

Maybe one should be happy about small victories, but that’s not the case here. If you can’t mine the information, then the whole exercise is pointless. In fact, if this is indeed the case, there is no victory.

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2 Comments

  1. bill
    Posted April 5, 2008 at 15:12 | Permalink

    Tell that to Stevan Harnad. I too have complained about this — see comments here and here.

  2. bill
    Posted April 5, 2008 at 18:12 | Permalink

    Tell that to Stevan Harnad. I too have complained about this — see comments here and here.

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