Monthly Archives: October 2007

Outrage: Repurposing Open Access material is allowed without explicit permission

In One Day I’ll Have Lunch with Egon Willighagen Too… Chemspiderman wrote “So what can we do now to help making connections between papers and molecules? Peter Corbett, who works with Peter Murray Rust, is working on automated methods of … Continue reading

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FROG – not just Free, but Open (PRODRG take note)

I am delighted to announce and praise FROG, a free service for creating 3D molecular structures from connection tables. This is yet another module in the list of Open chemistry offerings that will ultimately give the tools to the chemistry … Continue reading

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Chemspider and "Open Chemistry Web"

Recently the Chemspider company has announced an “Open Chemistry Web” which in my opinion misuses the word “Open”. Before I start I’ll review my relationships and attitude to Chemspider and Chemspiderman to try to clear the air. Chemspider.com and its … Continue reading

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Open Notebook Science

To clarify … this is a joint project between Henry and us. Until now the emphasis was here, because it was useful for Nick to run some jobs as part of his eScience PhD. Nick has already done about 500 … Continue reading

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"How can we persuade ACS to change?"

David Wild Says: October 11th, 2007 at 1:41 pm eSo does anyone have any ideas on how we can pursuade ACS to change? I’m not sure the usual forms of protest would work. We can obviously resign our memberships, but … Continue reading

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Advice on Open Notebook Technology

Cameron Neylon (How best to do the open notebook thing…a nice specific example) has responded helpfully at great length on collaboratuive technology for our Open NMR Calculations… How best to do the open notebook thing…a nice specific example Peter Murray-Rust … Continue reading

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Posting spectra

Jean-Claude Bradley Says: October 11th, 2007 at 1:32 pm e http://www.chemspider.com/spectra.aspx and for example benzaldehyde: http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.235.html I think a lot of the errors in the literature are due to poor quality spectra and improper referencing. It is really useful to … Continue reading

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WWMM calculation of spectra (proposed)

Jean-Claude Bradley has offered us the spectra that come out of his Open Notebook projects… Jean-Claude Bradley Says: October 11th, 2007 at 1:32 pm ePeter – it is great to see you contributing to open NMR data processing. For a … Continue reading

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Optimal Calendarship

Alma Swan – well known to Open Access, JISC, RIN, etc communities – has posted: An open access calendar, and a calendar for open access, 2008 07:20 11/10/2007, Alma Swan, OptimalScholarship Creative Commons (CC) is celebrating its 5th birthday. Lawrence … Continue reading

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Open NoteBook Science, Chemspiderman, GIAO and HOSE. We write the final paper

We posted yesterday about our proposed Open NoteBook approach to 13C chemical shifts from experiment and calculation and Chemspiderman has posted very helpful contributions, including offers of help. This is much appreciated and accepted. The main problem we have is … Continue reading

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