Monthly Archives: July 2007

THANK YOU ELSEVIER!

Posted on July 27, 2007 by pm286

I have had a simple, positive response from Elsevier on my request to access their data robotically. This is really exciting. THANK YOU ELSEVIER. It deserves capitals. Dear Peter Murray-Rust Thanks for your email.  Data is not copyrighted.  If you … Continue reading →

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Request for CODATA definition of Open Access

Posted on July 27, 2007 by pm286

Followup to http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=445 [Open letter, copied to http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=446] Dear Drs. Noelle and Hartmann, science-softCon Dr. Andreas Noelle Auf der Burg 4 D-63477 Maintal Germany Phone: +49(0)6181 498414 Fax: +49(0)6181 498415 E-Mail: andreas.noelle@science-softCon.de Internet: www.science-softCon.de UV/Vis Spectra Data Base SAG Dr. … Continue reading →

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Pay-to-view "open access" at CODATA?

Posted on July 26, 2007 by pm286

Here’s a puzzle – maybe someone can help. A member of the Blue Obelisk has discovered the following site science-softCon UV/Vis+ Spectra Data Base Spectral information (gas, liquid and solid phase from EUV-VUV-UV-Vis-NIR) and related data (e.g.  information concerning publications … Continue reading →

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Sparkies

Posted on July 26, 2007 by pm286

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is a major force in liberating information. Here is one of its ways – a prize for video-aware students. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 25, 2007 Contact: Jennifer McLennan (202) 296-2296 x 121 … Continue reading →

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Funders – please make sure what you are paying for

Posted on July 25, 2007 by pm286

The saddest thing about the HHMI-Elsevier deal is that HHMI didn’t appear to know what they were paying for or didn’t care. By doing less than due diligence they have moved the goalposts[1] in the wrong direction and made it … Continue reading →

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Key Perspectives on Data

Posted on July 25, 2007 by pm286

Alma Swan is a well-known and respected consultant and investigator in the area of “the scholarly publication industry” and runs a blog (Key Perspectives) where she reports: The increasing importance of data NEW STUDY on the publication and quality assurance … Continue reading →

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cyberscience: Labels and licences

Posted on July 24, 2007 by pm286

Bill Hooker has supported my suggestion of labels (We must have licences for publications) for describing the re-usability of publications. I will use “labels” rather than “licences” at present as it allows us to describe practice rather than mandate it … Continue reading →

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Open Access metrics can be simple and fun

Posted on July 24, 2007 by pm286

Here’s a simple idea for showing how Open a given field of endeavour is (thanks to Peter Suber Measuring the OA Quotient of a research topic): Matt Cockerill, How open is your research area? BMC blog, July 22, 2007. Excerpt: … Continue reading →

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We must have licences for publications

Posted on July 23, 2007 by pm286

I have written several times over the last few weeks about how important it is to clarify and protect the re-use of scientific data in publications (Open Data) and have, on several occasions, argued that the primary means that we … Continue reading →

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cyberscience: Why 100% is never achievable

Posted on July 22, 2007 by pm286

In the current series of posts I argue that data should be Open and re-usable and that we should be allowed to use robots to extract it from publishers’ websites. A common counter argument is that data should be aggregated … Continue reading →

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