Monthly Archives: October 2007

Experiment and Calculation in WWMM-NMR. Open Notebook Science

Posted on October 22, 2007 by pm286

Antony guessed the graph – regular readers will recognise the context of previous posts. We are starting an Open Notebook project to determine whether theoretical calculations and experimental observations agree – or rather within what limits. (Earlier this year I … Continue reading →

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Peter Suber – a model for us all

Posted on October 21, 2007 by pm286

I have just read Richard Poynder’s interview with Peter Suber: The Basement Interviews: Peter Suber, Open and Shut? October 19, 2007. It’s 80 pages and Richard records that it took 3 hours on Skype and landline. It’s almost the equivalent … Continue reading →

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Reconciling points of View

Posted on October 21, 2007 by pm286

Over the last few weeks there has been strong and active discussion about issues relating to Openness and some of these have been commented on (or even initiated) here. Some people feel that I have may been simplistic or overly … Continue reading →

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Urgent action need to support the NIH bill

Posted on October 21, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber has written at length (Urgent action need to support the NIH bill) The provision to mandate OA at the NIH is in trouble.  Late Friday, just before the filing deadline, a Senator acting on behalf of the publishing … Continue reading →

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A graph

Posted on October 21, 2007 by pm286

In the tradition of Rich Apodaca’s “Name that graph” (example), here is a graph without axes. You will be seeing more of these later.

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Why Green Open Access does not support text- and data-mining

Posted on October 16, 2007 by pm286

Stevan Harnad, Peter Suber and I have been discussing whether Green Open Access (author self-archiving in an Institutional Repository) is sufficient to allow indexing and mining. Stevan comments: Individual re-use capabilities: If a document’s full-text is freely accessible online (OA), … Continue reading →

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Industry suffers from Closed Data

Posted on October 16, 2007 by pm286

I received the following unsolicited mail two days ago from a scientist in a major chemical company [I have anonymised everything so you will have to take my word]. I work [in industry] and am very interested in improving our … Continue reading →

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Adding semantic markup with InChI

Posted on October 15, 2007 by pm286

If we could require all authors to provide machine-readable chemical structures in their chemistry articles the quality of chemistry would increase dramatically and immediately. We could create Open databases immediately, that were machine-searchable (just like crystalEye). No-one doubts that, but … Continue reading →

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What does "Open Access" mean

Posted on October 15, 2007 by pm286

Stevan Harnad is one of the founders of the OA movement and has tirelessly promoted the idea of Green and Gold OA. I applaud and support Stevan’s achievements. However I find and argue that Green Access does not give the … Continue reading →

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Oh Dear … Patent on Name2Structure conversion

Posted on October 15, 2007 by pm286

Chemspider has reported a new patent which claims the conversion of chemical names to structures. (BTW I am genuinely grateful for this post, as for several of the others). He writes: Name to Structure Conversion – and What One Little … Continue reading →

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