Monthly Archives: August 2007

PRISM: should I worry?

The last week has seen a spate of immediate reaction to the newly formed PRISM – the (American?) publishers’ lobby to destroy non-commercial open access.  There is so much (germane) comment that there is no need for me to duplicate … Continue reading

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berlin5 : Open Access to Research Data: surmountable challenges

This is the abstract I have submiitted for the Berlin-5 meeting : “Berlin 5 Open Access: From Practice to Impact: Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination” Open Access to Research Data: surmountable challenges Many scientists and organisations have recognised the power and … Continue reading

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Emotion and logic and PRISM

I’ve taken a week off blogging to write code and woken up to find I have nearly missed PRISM. PRISM is a publishers’ alliance which appears to be solely devoted to protecting twentieth century business methods by whatever process is … Continue reading

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What do we mean by open science?

There seems to be a critical mass of activity in the Open Science camp – possibly sparked off (or at least given amplification) by scifoo. Here is a very useful summary from Bill Hooker (Timo, invite Bill to scifoo next … Continue reading

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scifoo: Cameron Neylon on Open Notebook Science

More on Open Science from Jean-Claude Bradley. It’s sad to see how paper-driven we have become. It’s critical to publish, but I continually sense there is an increasing pressure of “I need a paper – what’s the most cost-effective way … Continue reading

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scifoo: the mindless impact factory

More scifoo follow up from Richard Akerman. No comment from me needed. I’m leaving the second life picture because … open science and the impact factory Jean-Claude Bradley instigated a session in Second Life – SciFoo Lives On: Open Science. … Continue reading

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berlin5: Berlin 5 Open Access

I am delighted to have been asked to present on the topic of Open Data at “Berlin -5”. The University of Padua, the CRUI (Council of Rectors of Italian Universities) and the Max Planck Gesellschaft are pleased to announce that … Continue reading

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Special issue of CTWatch on the coming revolution in scholarly communication

I have been busy with grants and hacking so have been away from the blog. (Making good progress on new ways of inputting and displaying chemistry). Here is a very important set of papers which are all highly relevant to … Continue reading

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scifoo: One chemical per one laptop?

On the Open Knowledge Foundation blog I noticed a call for projects related to One Laptop Per Child (which we saw at scifoo). I’m wondering what we could do in chemistry – there is so much around and so much … Continue reading

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When does open science work?

It’s funny how things turn out in the blogosphere. I’d posted about how ludicrous copyright on dead scientists’ work (Copyright madness – story 2) was and expected some comment from the librarian community. Silence (there’s still time to comment!). I … Continue reading

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