Monthly Archives: September 2007

statement: why I wrote to Cambridge UP and Oxford UP

Posted on September 11, 2007 by pm286

I received two emails today – independently – from press organizations / topical publications along the lines of “I am writing an article about AAP/PRISM and would like to know why you oppose it and wrote to CUP”. As I … Continue reading →

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Copyrighted Data: replies

Posted on September 10, 2007 by pm286

So far I have had replies from Antony Williams of Chemspider and Steve Bachrach. These are thoughtfull and I’ll comment here: Antony Williams Says: September 10th, 2007 at 3:50 am eI have commented in a recent blog post about your … Continue reading →

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Webcast: the power of the eThesis

Posted on September 9, 2007 by pm286

I am very grateful to Caltech, specially Eric van der Velde, for organising and recording my presentation on eTheses at Caltech last month. See The power of the Scientific eThesis, a combined audio, video and screenshow. Caltech have done a … Continue reading →

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An Open Letter to the British Library: charges for Open Access and restricted dissemination of Out-of-copyright material

Posted on September 9, 2007 by pm286

An open letter to the British Library Board about lack of Open Access and restrictions on out-of-copyright works Dear Andy Stephens BSc (Head of Corporate Planning and Secretariat, The British Library) andy.stephens@bl.uk I am a chemist at the University of … Continue reading →

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The British Unlibrary

Posted on September 9, 2007 by pm286

I am now gobsmacked. Earlier I have recounted (OUP wants me to pay for my own Open Access article) how I was expected to pay for access to my [*] own Open Access paper both through the actual publisher and … Continue reading →

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Copyfraud

Posted on September 8, 2007 by pm286

I have just discovered (through Klaus Graf and Peter Suber) the word that I need to describe what Wiley, eMolecules and Ingenta are doing: COPYFRAUD Read the excellent paper Falsely claiming copyright to a work in the public-domainJason Mazzone, Copyfraud, … Continue reading →

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Blogoversary

Posted on September 8, 2007 by pm286

It is roughly 1 year since my (younger) colleagues persuaded me to start a blog and here are some thoughts while I am watching the footie… Has it been like I thought first post (Welcome!)? I’ll comment on each topic … Continue reading →

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Science librarians as campus OA advocates

Posted on September 8, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber has blogged (Science librarians as campus OA advocates) an article : Elizabeth C. Turtle and Martin P. Courtois, Scholarly Communication: Science Librarians as Advocates for Change, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Summer 2007. Abstract: Science librarians are … Continue reading →

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Ingenta replies; suggestions for the future

Posted on September 8, 2007 by pm286

I have blogged about how our Open Access paper was offered for sale by Ingenta, and how they had removed our copyright on the abstract and replaced it by their own. I am pleased to see we have a reply: … Continue reading →

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Wiley and eMolecules: unacceptable; an explanation would be welcome

Posted on September 8, 2007 by pm286

Some readers may have been surprised why I got agitated ( Wiley and eMolecules: Unacceptable) from a spam letter from eMolecules – after all we get umpteen SPAM a day, we had probably swapped emails and had even talked about … Continue reading →

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