Monthly Archives: May 2008

My blog comments seem to be giving people a lot of problems. Stevan Harnad comments: Peter Murray-Rust writes: “Most chemistry publishing is closed access, not even allowing Green self-archiving (unless paid for). There is no sign that any of the … Continue reading →

The RSC is hosting a meeting on Open Access on Thursday: Event Details Open Access Publishing in the Chemical Sciences The meeting will revisit the area of open access publishing including Bioinformatics and data repositories. Date: 22 May 2008 09:30 … Continue reading →

I missed this post ( The Scientist; ) more than a week ago. It generated a fair amount of comment. The point I’m going to make is that Open Access can range from very simple to very complicated… new paradigm … Continue reading →

In a recent post ( Chemical names – the challenge) I addressed the question of how to identify chemical names in text and referred to the problem of generic rather than specific names. Here’s an example showing how we cannot … Continue reading →

Antony Williams on Chemspider posts a serious question and I give a serious answer. I wonder if it’s what he was expecting… I’ll state it, and then comment on NLP before giving an answer: This is NOT a Trick Question … Continue reading →

In an email from Klaus Graf, one of the most consistent supporters of BBB-OA (and CC-BY): http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4931334/ In German. [PMR: It translates quite readably with Babelfish]. Reasons for re-use OA and my mantra “Make all research results CC-BY”: (1) Data … Continue reading →

An excellent account from Cameron Neylon of the frustration (and possibly ruined young careers) when experiments are not repeatable because they haven’t been done properly. While there is no algorithm that guards against this, the deposition of raw data is … Continue reading →

ChemConnector (from the Chemspider stable – anonymous, but possibly Antony Williams) has posted on searching for chemical structures in Word anf PDF files. S/he rightly concludes that (a) it’s possible and (b) not done – at least in public. I’ll … Continue reading →

The preposition is “at”. Next Thursday the RSC is organising a one day meeting in Burlington House London (next to the Royal Academy if you want a change afterwards. Here’s the programme Open Access Publishing in the Chemical Sciences Final … Continue reading →

PMR: Recent comments on this blog about derivative works of Wikipedia… Physchim62 Says: May 15th, 2008 at 6:38 pm eI would be very interested in having a chat with you about this project, either here or by email. Although I … Continue reading →