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BioMedCentral Plugin enhancement #1

Open emanuil-tolev opened 11 years ago

emanuil-tolev commented 11 years ago

10.1186/1471-2393-13-43 currently points to an abstract of an article (seems like good content, so provisional PDF available).

http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-13-43

Page is a little different from the usual BMC page, copyright statement is nowhere to be seen. However, it does have a little image label saying "Open Access":

<a href="/about/access">
<img class="access mr15" src="/images/articles/openaccess-large.png" alt="Open Access">
</a>

The /about/access page says: "All research articles are open access

Every peer-reviewed research article appearing in any journal published by BioMed Central is 'open access', meaning that: [...]"

And then it has some details, which seems like a pretty clear-cut policy to me.

So this could be our first more complex case where we use the site-wide license to determine the status of an article that's missing a license. Maybe phase 2 though, there are other interesting problems which need resolving.

(But BMC is nice for us since its intentions are clear - and if we identify something from BMC as closed-access then we're probably wrong and can go fix our code.)

cameronneylon commented 11 years ago

Worth noting that there are some papers in BMC that are not Open Access (some reviews and commentaries are subscription only eg 10.1186/bcr3351). This looks like it is a provision article, rather than a fully published one. Advance publication was something I hadn't thought about really, but I agree this is a useful case to flag and think about.

Also note that the html does have an RDF packet in it that includes a reference to CC BY 2.0 as well. I recommended against using this for PLOS because there were cases where it differed from the human-readable license (this has been fixed recently) but maybe worth defaulting back to that in this case.

I've also got a query in with some BMC folks for a list of all the variant licenses they have which I will forward as soon as I have them.

richard-jones commented 11 years ago

No action required right now, but keeping as an open issue for the future

richard-jones commented 10 years ago

Does this need to be looked at in Phase 2 as part of our updates/additional plugins

cameronneylon commented 10 years ago

I'm inclined to leave out the issue of provisionally published articles. Many publishers are actively changing things in this space so I don't think we can easily keep up. In this case I would return "can't tell" or perhaps we create a new "license" for the string matcher for BMC which is "provisional article, license not determined".