Monthly Archives: July 2007

"open access products" at Nature obscures the debate

Posted on July 17, 2007 by pm286

In a recent post Why Open Access metrics are necessary – July 16th, 2007 I quoted Paul Wilks (Is Publisher-lead “open access” a swindle?) where he detailed how the the obscurity of language and procedures in closed access publishing could … Continue reading →

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Can Open Data be manipulated?

Posted on July 17, 2007 by pm286

Chrsi Rusbridge – who runs the Digital Curation Centre – has raised the question of whether making data Open increases the risk of fraudulent manipulation of content: Open Data… Open Season? Peter Murray Rust is an enthusiastic advocate of Open … Continue reading →

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Open Access at Copernicus

Posted on July 16, 2007 by pm286

In further travels I have come across Copernicus GmbH, “A Spin-Off of the Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie und Sonnensystemforschung”. This is listed in DOAJ and publishes Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (which is of interest to me as I have a colleague … Continue reading →

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Open Access publishing at Nature

Posted on July 16, 2007 by pm286

In these posts I am trying to be as objective as possible in that I am investigating the provision of Open Access, “open access” and the consistency of a publisher. I am not being systematic as I have been sticking … Continue reading →

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Corrigendum to earlier post on access to Blackwells/IUCr

Posted on July 16, 2007 by pm286

Peter Strickland from the International Union of Crystallography (with whom we work closely) has explained the problem with the confusion between “BUY” and “open access” labels on IUCr content. [Post in full:] Name: Peter Strickland | URI: http://journals.iucr.org | IP: … Continue reading →

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Why US citizens need to lobby the House

Posted on July 16, 2007 by pm286

I am not a US citizen so cannot influence any representative about the NIH bill (see my post US citizens: please lobby for House vote on OA mandate next Tuesday). But in case you think this doesn’t matter, here’s the … Continue reading →

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Why Open Access metrics are necessary

Posted on July 16, 2007 by pm286

My recent activity into Open Access practice is motivated by making sure that things are done properly rather than a desire to bash publishers or campaign against lower prices. I’m not an expert here – I don’t know what the … Continue reading →

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Has anything changed in three years?

Posted on July 16, 2007 by pm286

Last week I had a long conversation with a representative of UK local government with responsilibility for Brussels. They were interested in Open Access and I spent about an hour explaining it from the bottom up. It can take that … Continue reading →

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"Open Access" at libertas academica

Posted on July 15, 2007 by pm286

As I have mentioned a group of Blue Obelisk volunteers are surveying the practice of “open access” in chemistry. We’ve created a wiki and will be exposing the work as we do it – url follows when we have tidied … Continue reading →

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No more hamburgers!?

Posted on July 14, 2007 by pm286

From HUBLOG (who I think is Alf Eaton from Nature) we have: EPUB and Adobe Digital EditionsBill McCoy from Adobe came in to give us a talk yesterday, the main part of which was a demo of Adobe Digital Editions … Continue reading →

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