The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship
Author: Piwowar, Heather "Check out the robot.txt files for PMC for /pmc/articles/ and notice that GoogleBot is allowed, Bing and a few others are allowed, but User-Agent:* (the rest of us) are not. The same is true for ScienceDirect robots.txt: Google may textmine everything, experimenting scientists, nothing. (hat tip to Alf Eaton on twitter) Is this defensible on … Read more
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