Monthly Archives: July 2007

Why doesn't Springer use a CC licence?

Posted on July 11, 2007 by pm286

In a reply to a post of mine, Jan Velterop of Springer writes, and I comment, I hope, constructively. Jan Velterop Says: July 11th, 2007 at 10:29 am eDear Peter (and Bill), [Bill Hooker] JV: The wish to improve findability … Continue reading →

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Blackwell also fails to deliver Open Access

Posted on July 11, 2007 by pm286

[To verify my assertions in this you will have to be on a machine that does not have institutional access to Blackwell publications. I am doing this from home] I am a crystallographer and proud of it. We work very … Continue reading →

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SPECTRa – we've been blogged!

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

It’s rather gratifying when someone else reports our own work, nn this case Chemistry Central blog. They have picked up our 18-month project with Imperial and this substantial summary saves us the work of creating our own: The findings of … Continue reading →

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Voyages into publisher copyright – End of course exam

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

In the last 4 posts we have seen several varieties of Open Access (or Free Access) (or Hidden Access) or Fuzzy Access. Now it’s time to see how well you have been following these tutorials. So we have picked yet … Continue reading →

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Voyages into publisher copyright – Less than full Open Access and less than Free

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

Continuing our exploration of Open Access – let’s stick with chemistry (after all I don’t know about anything else). Last year the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced: ACS Offers Open-Access Option To Authors Sophie Rovner In October [2006], American Chemical … Continue reading →

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Voyages into publisher copyright – Full Open Access.

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

Some readers may wonder why I am spending energy and words on Open Access to publishers’ sites when I can simply read the papers they have listed as OA. Surely that’s all that matters? Well, no. I’m a scientist and … Continue reading →

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NC or not-NC

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

NC or not-NC – the future of this blog awaits your verdict. There have been recent comments suggesting that as I am advocating CC-BY (and not CC-NC) for Open Access papers, then this blog should also use CC-BY. CC-BY is … Continue reading →

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Open Access – Reply to Springer

Posted on July 9, 2007 by pm286

In a recent post Springer – I resign from your Journal – July 8th, 2007 I criticized Springer for their failure to implement their Open Choice according to their promise to authors. I thank Jan Velterop for his speedy and … Continue reading →

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Springer – I resign from your Journal

Posted on July 8, 2007 by pm286

Till today I was a member of the editorial board of Journal of Molecular Modeling · Computational Chemistry – Life Sciences – Advanced Materials – New Methods – published by Springer. It wasn’t very onerous – I occasionally got a … Continue reading →

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What's so wonderful about citations?

Posted on July 7, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber reports: Download milestone for BMC article 20:34 06/07/2007, Peter Suber, Open Access News Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Open access article on consensus definition of acute renal failure has been accessed more than 100,000 times, BioMed Central blog, July 6, 2007. … Continue reading →

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