[sdpd] Encouragements from the Royal Society

[Armel Le Bail <alb...@cristal.org>]

Hello,

See an interesting document from the Royal Society
(April 2003) : "Keeping science open: the effects of
intellectual property policy on the conduct of science"
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/files/statfiles/document-221.pdf

"Since the cost of scientific information is high,
and the value added by proper access is great,
it makes no sense to allow the value of publicly
funded data to be constrained by limitations to
access in private databases. (...)
We recommend that scientists ensure that any
publicly funded data that are made available
to private databases are done so non-exclusively,
and that at least one repository of the information
is liberal regarding access to and use and manipulation
of the data. (...)
It is particularly important for science in developing
countries that access to databases by their scientists
is free."

So, don't forget the COD at www.crystallography.net

The number of uploaded CIFs is slowing down.
The whole production being at ~30000 structures
determined per year, theCOD should see ~100 CIFs
uploaded per day.

The COD Advisory Board


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