NAR Database Issue Database Summaries license
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The following page contains some rough notes regarding the NAR Database Issue Database Summaries license. The following emails are provided as a record of the licensing process.
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[edit] Initial (rejected) request
[edit] Licence application letter:
from Dan Bolser <dan.bolser@gmail.com> to journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org date 01-Apr-2007 20:32 subject Usage of the 'Database Collection' - Database Summaries section Usage of the 'Database Collection' - Database Summaries section; I am interested in using the textual content of the "Database Summaries" section of the Nucleic Acids Research Database issue in a derived work to be published at Bioinformatics.Org. Speculatively I would like to request the use of the text as a 'seed' for a WikiMedia database, leading to derived, user-contributed content over time. I am not sure how this request would fit (if at all) with your licencing policy. Like the popular WikiMedia database, WikiPedia, I was planning to licence the user-contributed content under a 'CopyLeft' licence. The website project will be strictly non-commercial, and would aim to leverage the power of user contributed content evidenced by the success of projects such as WikiPedia. I have found a number of similar projects, most notable the MetaDB; http://www.neurotransmitter.net/metadb/metadb.php Which claims to "borrow from the NAR Molecular Biology Database Collection". However, this project is not open to user contribution. Thanks very much for your consideration, Dan Bolser.
[edit] Licence rejected letter:
from JOURNALS PERMISSIONS <journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org> to Dan Bolser <dan.bolser@gmail.com> date 16-Apr-2007 10:11 subject RE: Usage of the 'Database Collection' - Database Summaries section Dear Mr Bolser Thank you for your email and for the interest in our material. I'm afraid it is not possible for me to grant permission for this request Kind regards Gemma Gemma Puntis | Rights Assistant Rights and New Business Development Oxford Journals | Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street | Oxford | OX2 6DP | UK T: +44 (0) 1865 354779 E: gemma.puntis@oxfordjournals.org F: +44 (0) 1865 353485 W. www.oxfordjournals.org
[edit] Second (successful) request
[edit] Licence application letter:
from Dan Bolser <dan.bolser@gmail.com> to journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org date 08-May-2007 10:31 subject Usage of the 'Database Collection' - Database Summaries section I am interested in using the textual content of the "Database Summaries" section of the "Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue" in a derived work to be published online. Unlike my previous (rejected) request, I would like to request the right to use the unaltered "Database Summaries" for each database in a collection of web pages. Each page will be accompanied by an appropriate citation, in addition to hyper-links back to the original source page on your website. The summary text from NAR (as described above) will appear on our website with additional links between databases, for example, additional category structure and keywords, as well as additional text describing the specific database. This additional data will be clearly distinguishable from the original source material. To reiterate, the text from the "Database summaries" section of the Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue would appear verbatim as a part of a new online publication, including appropriate links and citations to the original material.
[edit] Licence granted letter:
from JOURNALS PERMISSIONS <journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org> to Dan Bolser <dan.bolser@gmail.com> date 08-May-2007 16:44 subject RE: Usage of the 'Database Collection' - Database Summaries section Under the Open Access policy which the author signed for this journal, we have no objections to your using the material in the way proposed, providing that the source is fully acknowledged, and that the use is strictly non-commercial. Gemma Puntis | Rights Assistant Rights and New Business Development Oxford Journals | Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street | Oxford | OX2 6DP | UK T: +44 (0) 1865 354779 E: gemma.puntis@oxfordjournals.org F: +44 (0) 1865 353485 W. www.oxfordjournals.org
