Monthly Archives: May 2008

Suber-Harnad strongOA/weakOA borderline

Posted on May 4, 2008 by pm286

Peter Suber (again mysteriously unable to post comments) and Stevan Harnad clarify the weak/strongOA borderline. This is making it clearer to me. Accept that I completely misread or misunderstood the original statement. I’ll comment below. At present I am interested … Continue reading →

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Peter Suber's comments on strongOA/weakOA

Posted on May 4, 2008 by pm286

For some reason this blog does not accept comments from Peter Suber so he has sent one by email. I copy it and then add a brief comment: [PS] I made two points in my <a href=“http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/04/strong-and-weak-oa.html”>blog post</a> last week … Continue reading →

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The strongOA-weakOA borderline is undefineable

Posted on May 3, 2008 by pm286

Stevan Harnad (one of the creators of the current terms strongOA and weakOA – Peter Suber is the other) now makes it clear (this blog May 3rd, 2008 at 2:00 pm e) that an objective operational definition of strongOA is … Continue reading →

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SPARC requires CC-BY for their "OA Seal"

Posted on May 3, 2008 by pm286

I missed this announcement from SPARC or I would certainly have trumpeted it… Comments at end… From: David Prosser [email] Sent: 23 April 2008 17:18 To: ‘sparc-europe@arl.org’ Subject: Launch of the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journal Lund, Sweden … Continue reading →

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How many forms of OA are there now?

Posted on May 3, 2008 by pm286

You use Although the main OA world seems oblivious to the need to define what they are talking about the discussion continues on this blog! Stevan Harnad now writes a comment which, when taken with Peter Suber’s comments leaves me … Continue reading →

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The merits and demerits of PDF

Posted on May 3, 2008 by pm286

Chris Rusbridge and I have been indulging in a constructive debate about whether PDF is a useful archiving tool. Chris, as readers know, runs the Digital Curation Centre. I’ll reproduce the latest post from his blog and intersperse with comments. … Continue reading →

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Further discussion on strongOA and weakOA

Posted on May 2, 2008 by pm286

I have still seen very few public comments but have now had comments on this blog from Stevan, PeterS and Klaus Graf which is at least a good spectrum. So I’ll comment in detail, and meanwhile hope to goad some … Continue reading →

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Peter Suber on what is strongOA

Posted on May 2, 2008 by pm286

Peter Suber has replied to my general request for the definition of strongOA. (It got lost in the comments queue, as has also happened to StevanH :-): Hi Peter. Just one point of clarification.  As I said in my blog … Continue reading →

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How can we create semantic chemical information?

Posted on May 2, 2008 by pm286

We’re looking to create an Open semantic resource for chemistry for a group of common chemicals – partly as a partner in the ORECHEM (Chemistry Repositories), project and partly because we need it for our own work in machine understanding … Continue reading →

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More PDF hamburger

Posted on May 1, 2008 by pm286

Chris Rusbridge (Director of the Digital Curation Centre) has added another thoughtful comment which has helped me clarify my ideas. Chris Rusbridge Says: April 30th, 2008 at 5:00 pm e Well Peter, thanks for amplifying your answer, but I still … Continue reading →

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