Monthly Archives: August 2007

International harvesting of OA ETD repositories

Posted on August 4, 2007 by pm286

From Peter Suber’s blog: International harvesting of OA ETD repositories Leading the way with a European e-Theses demonstrator project, a press release from the Dutch SURF Foundation, July 31, 2007. Excerpt: The organisations JISC (UK), the National Library of Sweden … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the chemical blogosphere

Posted on August 3, 2007 by pm286

I’ve a few minutes to kill before the shuttle to Scifoo… I believe the chemical blogosphere is among the leaders in domain-specific blogging and I’ll be bouncing this idea off the SciFooCampers (where the blogosphere is seen by many as … Continue reading →

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The birth of a movement

Posted on August 3, 2007 by pm286

From Peter Suber’s blog. An account of the roots of the Open Access declarations: Intro to OA for the FOSS community Bruce Byfield, Academia’s Open Access movement mirrors FOSS community, Linux.com, August 2, 2007. Excerpt: Free and open source software … Continue reading →

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Molecules in Wikipedia and RDF

Posted on August 3, 2007 by pm286

I’ve just arrived in Mountain View for the Nature Google O’Reilly Foo Camp. Expect either silence (i.e. swamped) or gushings. I doubt I’ll have much time to blog. To keep readers happy here’s Egon making things happen in the world … Continue reading →

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legacy molecules: 2-fooyl-ethanol?

Posted on August 1, 2007 by pm286

More thoughts on recovering legacy molecules – this time from names. In journals and elsewhere we frequently come across lists like: 2-chloro-ethanol ClCH2CH2OH 2-fluoro-ethanol FCH2CH2OH 2-phenyl-ethanol C6H5CH2CH2OH These all have a generic representation with “R” groups: RCH2CH2OH Is there a … Continue reading →

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