Category Archives: open issues

NMR Challenge: what can a machine deduce from a thesis?

Posted on November 24, 2007 by pm286

One of the ways of extracting chemical structures from the literature is to use the NMR to constrain the possibilities. So, to give you an amusement for the weekend, here are some problems. I have a thesis (which I’m not … Continue reading →

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Open means Libre

Posted on November 23, 2007 by pm286

In recent posts (e.g. Open Data – preservation) I have continued to raise the problem that “Open” should not just mean free of charge nbut also free to use. (Peter Suber calls these price and permission barriers).   So I am … Continue reading →

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Cameron's Open proposal

Posted on November 23, 2007 by pm286

In the last two days Cameron Neylon has posted an idea for Open Science and got a lot of interest, see: e-science for open science – an EPSRC research network proposal and Follow on to network proposal. The idea is … Continue reading →

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Open NMR and OSCAR toolchains

Posted on November 22, 2007 by pm286

I am currently refactoring Nick Day’s code that has supported “NMREye” – the collection of Open experiments and Data that he has generated as part of his thesis and have been trailed on this blog ( View post). One intention … Continue reading →

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Open Data – preservation

Posted on November 19, 2007 by pm286

An interchange with a correspondent… You [PMR] said in your Blog: It is critical to distinguish between “Free” and Open. “Free”, in this context, simply means that the provider has mounted the data (not necessarily the whole data) on a … Continue reading →

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Open Data – 2

Posted on November 19, 2007 by pm286

I posted receently about the problems of describing Open Data -how strict should we be about boundaries? Peter Suber has replied What counts as open data?, Klaus Graf has also given an important emphasis on archiving in a comment to … Continue reading →

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Open Data

Posted on November 17, 2007 by pm286

There are several reasons why I’m currently thinking about Open Data (see Open Data at WP for some collected wisdom and links). We’re currently collecting more chemistry data that we intend to make Openly available (see CrystalEyeknowledge base as an … Continue reading →

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Get ready for the lawsuit

Posted on November 15, 2007 by pm286

In case it hasn’t reached the chemistry blogosphere, here’s more from Peter Suber; More from ACS Insider2 “ACS Insider2” (a.k.a. “Miss Phlogiston”) reports that the American Chemical Society (ACS) has a plan in case the NIH adopts an OA mandate: … Continue reading →

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Dog food is tasty!

Posted on November 13, 2007 by pm286

I can’t escape… I have committed myself publicly. Here’s Peter Sefton:  Crossing curation mountain I’m looking forward to seeing Peter Murray Rust eat my dog food. He’s lucky cos at our place the hounds eat relatively benign dry food. […] … Continue reading →

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Communal repositability wiki?

Posted on November 13, 2007 by pm286

I continually find it difficult to know what the formal publisher rules are for self-archiving. In my naive days I used to think this area was governed by logic – e.g. that Open Access implied adherence to the BBB declarations … Continue reading →

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