Monthly Archives: December 2006

Impact Factors! Hirsch, Erdős and Pauling

Posted on December 8, 2006 by pm286

Having spent 2 hours tidying CML Schema over a flaky CVS connection to sourceforge, I need some relaxation. So, after my disillusionment with the accuracy of citation metrics, I was spooking around Wikipedia and came across the h-index ( suggested … Continue reading →

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Open Data in psychology

Posted on December 7, 2006 by pm286

Peter Suber has posted (in Open Access News) A call for data sharing in psychology A fair share, Nature, December 7, 2006. An unsigned editorial. Excerpt: In psychology there is little tradition of making the data on which researchers base … Continue reading →

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The most cited chemistry articles??

Posted on December 7, 2006 by pm286

In my last post ( Assessed by Robots and citation Quiz) I argued that our careers are now in the hands of the publishing industry – they provide the numerical metrics and based on this the funders decide whether we … Continue reading →

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Assessed by Robots and citation Quiz.

Posted on December 7, 2006 by pm286

Jim Downing delicioused me the following link from the UK HEFCE. We are now going to be assessed by robots. (Since I am promoting the concept of robot readers of journals I can hardly complain). Skim the following (which has … Continue reading →

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Open Access in Science – 1

Posted on December 6, 2006 by pm286

I have been thinking about Open Access (and Open Data) since I ran into misunderstandings about what is an Open Access journal. As a result I have asked for clarification on one of the most prominent OA mailing lists and … Continue reading →

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Licenses?!

Posted on December 6, 2006 by pm286

Chris Rusbridge – who directs the UK Digital Curation Centre – has made an excellent comment on my post Molecules? Does “Open Access” help or hinder Open Science? I’m confused! Peter says “BOAI permits commercial re-use; MDPI does not.” But … Continue reading →

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Molecules? Does "Open Access" help or hinder Open Science?

Posted on December 1, 2006 by pm286

“Open Access” is often taken to imply certain rights. In fact it is more frequently a fuzzy term whose precise interpretation is unclear and sometimes even counterproductive to Open Science. (I accept this is a provocative statement, so read on…:-). … Continue reading →

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