Monthly Archives: October 2007

Thank you JCB for Free XML

Posted on October 6, 2007 by pm286

From Peter Suber’s blog TA journal deposits its new articles in PMC after six months 17:26 04/10/2007, Peter Suber, Open Access News Emma Hill, JCB content automatically deposited in PubMed Central (PMC), Journal of Cell Biology, October 1, 2007. An … Continue reading →

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Downtime, generic apology, and trivia

Posted on October 6, 2007 by pm286

WWMM server is going down tomorrow morning (BST, ca 0900-1200 and UTC 0800-1100). So if you read manually or wish to comment, please don’t be surprised. When I started this blog I did not expect for it to take on … Continue reading →

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Why Open Access really matters

Posted on October 2, 2007 by pm286

From Peter Suber’s blog. This time a real threat to peer review and quality control 22:26 01/10/2007, Peter Suber, Open Access News Sergio Sismondo, Ghost Management: How Much of the Medical Literature Is Shaped Behind the Scenes by the Pharmaceutical … Continue reading →

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Naming chemical compounds

Posted on October 2, 2007 by pm286

At the risk of boring readers who already understand the issue of names, metadata, recursive annotations and versions, let me do this discussion to death. I reiterate. A name by itself is neither right of wrong. It is possible that … Continue reading →

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Can chemical structures be right or wrong?

Posted on October 2, 2007 by pm286

Chemspiderman has commented… ChemSpider Blog » Blog Archive » Dictionary Lookups and Optical Structure Recognition Versus Structure Drawing. Which is Less Error Prone? Says: October 2nd, 2007 at 5:48 am e[…] Luqidcarbon has put up a recent blog posting about … Continue reading →

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The chemical blogosphere cares

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

Wow! I posted a request yesterday (sic) for supporting material for our proposal to JISC for a person to support the blogosphere as a major resource for increasing the quality of published chemistry. I have had valuable contributions from 4 … Continue reading →

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I submit a Nature article to Nature Precedings

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

I have been invited by the editors of Nature to submit a review/commentary article, currently on the theme of “Open Chemistry”. This is currently under the title “Horizons” though the actual format may change before publication. I wrote the article … Continue reading →

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Comments on comments and agents and eyeballs

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

One of the difficult features of blogs is how to manage comments. On this blog these are relatively infrequent, wile on – say –ChemBark, TotallySynthetic.com or The Chem Blog some articles generate over 100 replies. I got into the habit … Continue reading →

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Eyeballs from the blogosphere

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

Fantastic! The blogosphere has already responded to our request for accounts of data quality enhancement. Egon Willighagen Says: October 1st, 2007 at 8:18 am ePeter, I’ve placed some pointer to past blog items from my blog that I feel relevant … Continue reading →

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Guerilla OA activity

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

Blogged by Peter Suber: Graham Steele, Conference Report, McBlawg, September 29, 2007.  Excerpt: Here is a report in relation to my attendance of NeuroPrion 2007 26th – 28th September, Edinburgh, Scotland…. Given the approximate number (~ 800) [of attendees], clearly, … Continue reading →

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