Monthly Archives: July 2007

Open Data genetics and Open Data astronomy

The world is exploding with Open Data posts… From the Data Strategy blog: Open data astronomy I started writing this post on open data astronomy some time ago, and damn… I got scooped by Read/WriteWeb today with their article on … Continue reading

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More "potential reproducibility"

I’ve just blogged about a group (Open Data is critical for Reproducible Research) which is wanting to publish reproducible science. Quite by chance I then read  Bill Hooker reporting another effort to create reproducibility: Giving Open Notebook Science a Try … Continue reading

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Open Data is critical for Reproducible Research

I have been contacted by a group in Lausanne working in the audiovisual area who want to publish their work so it can be reproduced. Here’s their outline and links to protocols: Reproducible Research In our lab, we try to … Continue reading

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Survey of "free to read" Chemistry in Wiley Publications

The Blue Obelisk community is undertaking a survey of access to chemical Open Data through Open Access, Fuzzy Open Access, and closed Access publications. Today I looked at Wiley’s offering. (Note although Blackwell and Wiley are now one company I … Continue reading

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Thanks to Journal Info

I have just discovered Journal Info from the University of Lund which lists ca 18,000 journals. From the FAQ: Real Answers to real questions about Journal Info. What is the purpose of the service? The purpose is to provide an … Continue reading

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US citizens: please lobby for House vote on OA mandate next Tuesday

Peter Suber blogs: House vote on OA mandate next Tuesday  (Open Access News) Yesterday when I posted the good news that the House Appropriations Committee had approved an OA mandate for the NIH, I didn’t have the exact language of … Continue reading

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Heather shows that Open Data increases Citations

If your life is driven by citations, then Heather Piwowar has shown that data openly accessible in papers increases the citations. From her blog: Presentation on Citation Rate for Shared Data Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB (2007) Sharing Detailed … Continue reading

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Problems with character sets when blogging

This post is primarily to test Feedburner which gripes about strange characters. Some of my material comes from other sites such as the publisher’s web pages that I have been analysing recently. These contain all sort of strange material such … Continue reading

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Do authors want to give publishers a monopoly over their data?

In response to my post Why doesn’t Springer use a CC licence? and Bill Hooker’s reply Egon Willighagen writes: Egon Says: Bill, regarding [1]… I think the following plays a role here. Say the make it CC-BY, and someone extracts … Continue reading

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"Open Access" – Elsevier, Wiley, RSC

xx My survey of “open access” in chemistry publishers is part of a larger project which will be revealed shortly. I had not planned to look at closed access publishers but thought it was worth checking what they offered and … Continue reading

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