Monthly Archives: October 2007

We start Open Notebook Science at UCC on calculating NMR

We are starting an experiment on Open Notebook Science. See (Open Notebook Science Using Blogs and Wikis : Nature Precedings, Drexel CoAS E-Learning: Open Notebook Science, Useful Chemistry: Cameron Neylon on Open Notebook Science, Drexel CoAS talks mp3 podcast: Open … Continue reading

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What are the shortest and longest known As-As bonds?

How would you find the answer to this question? How long did it take you? How sure are you that your answer is correct? What would you do to check? Comments welcome.

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A sad day for ACS

Peter Suber has relayed a message which has been widely posted. More on executive bonuses at the ACS This memo from “ACS Insider” has been sent directly to many librarians and university administrators, and to at least one public listserv, … Continue reading

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Re-use: Price and permission barriers

When scientists read publications they often want to re-use them. What do we mean by “re-use”? Isn’t reading good enough? No. Re-use means that they can take the information in the publication and, while preserving the provenance, use it for … Continue reading

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Video of Paul Miller's talk at Unilever Centre

Nico Adams has very kindly video’ed Paul Miller’s talk here and uploaded the result to Google. The original video is 15 GB so Nico has reduced it to 1 GB using iMovie. You can see the result on his blog: … Continue reading

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My talk at Cambridge Network

As I blogged I was invited to speak yesterday at Cambridge Network on “Cambridge ideas that change the world”. I’d originally given a title of “The Semantic Web” and thought I would say something about it that would entertain and … Continue reading

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Paul Miller on the Web of Data

Paul visited us today (Paul Miller speaking at UCC) and gave a beautiful presentation on the Web of Data. Literally beautiful. He had worked very hard on preparing it and it flowed imperceptibly from simple beginnings to a current conclusion. … Continue reading

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Billion-dollar Scientific Scholarship?

Peter Suber seems to have connections everywhere and picked up this really exciting post about how there is a wide-open market to completely restructure scientific publishing. Alexandre Linhares is the Director-General of the Brazilian Chapter of the Club of Rome. … Continue reading

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Paul Miller speaking at UCC

I should have blogged this earlier but was too wrapped up in my talk for yesterday. Still if anyone in the Cambridge area is reading this, Paul Miller of Talis is visiting us today and giving a talk in the … Continue reading

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"This explains a lot"

Followers of Peter Suber’s blog know that he is one of the fairest, most objective, writers and thinkers on Open Access. He gives credit where it is due even for advances which he feels are largely suboptimal. I have corresponded … Continue reading

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