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Category Archives: open issues
US Voters: time to lobby Congress on OA again
From Peter Suber: Bush vetoes LHHS appropriations bill The headline says it all, but here’s some detail from Jennifer Loven for the Associated Press: President Bush, escalating his budget battle with Congress, on Tuesday vetoed a spending measure for health … Continue reading
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Repository depositions – what scales? A simple idea
One of the problems of repositories at present is that everything is new. And much of it is complex. And some changes rapidly. So here is a simple idea, motivated by Dorothea’s reply to a post of mine… Dorothea Salo … Continue reading
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Can I reposit my article?
Having re-explored the access to articles in the Journal Of Molecular Modeling I thought I would see if I am allowed to reposit my article in the Cambridge DSpace. So while the sun is shining here’s a small pictorial journey… … Continue reading
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Green Gold Hybrid
Peter Suber reports Jan Velterop’s comments on the Green version of Open Access: More on JAM about the NIH policy (Jan Velterop, JAM tomorrow) The Parachute, November 9, 2007: JV: Applied to OA, ‘green’ and ‘gold’ are qualifiers of a … Continue reading
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Open Data for common molecules?
Yesterday I needed the measured (i.e. not predicted) mass density for 2-bromo-propanoyl-bromide (CH3-CH(Br)C(=O)Br). This is a moderately common reagent and so I went to look for it on the Web – ultimately finding it on several sites. The value is … Continue reading
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Give Us the Data Raw, and Give it to Us Now
Rufus Pollock (OKFN) expresses a common sentiment Give Us the Data Raw, and Give it to Us Now One thing I find remarkable about many data projects is how much effort goes into developing a shiny front-end for the material. … Continue reading
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Students and the Scholarly revolution
Gavin Baker, Student activism: How students use the scholarly communication system, College & Research Libraries News, November 10, 2007. (Peter Suber’s excerpt) Faculty aren’t the only users of the scholarly communication system. Students also depend on it for their education, … Continue reading
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Open Data and Moral Rights
Kaitlin Thaney, Project Manager, Science Commons pointed me to her colleague’s post on moral rights. “Our legal counsel, Thinh Nguyen has just posted a bit on the relationship between and issues regarding CC licenses, OA and moral rights. Worth a … Continue reading
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Open NMR: Nick Day's "final" results
Nick has more-or-less finished the computational NMR work on compounds from NMRShiftDB and we are exposing as much of the work as technically possible. Here is his interim report, some of which I trailed yesterday. The theoretical calculation (rmpw1pw91/6-31g(d,p)) involves: … Continue reading
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Open Learn
From the Open Knowledge Foundation blog Open Learn 2007 19:03 05/11/2007, jwyg, events, external, metadata, musings, Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog Last week I [?Jonathan Gray?] went to the OpenLearn 2007 conference hosted at the Open University. A lot was packed … Continue reading
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