Monthly Archives: June 2008

I was delighted to be asked to speak at a meeting of ERBI in Cambridge yesterday evening. ERBI is (roughly) a get-together of scientists and IT people in the dynamic biotech companies from the Cambridge region (“The Health, Wealth and … Continue reading →

It’s out… Many thanks to Connie Foster (editor) for her patience. From Peter Suber: New issue of Serials Review on OA Revisited 17:33 04/06/2008, Gavin Baker, The March issue of Serials Review (just out, apparently) is devoted to Open Access … Continue reading →

Chris Rusbridge has developed the idea that repositories need to be more than somewhere you put things, and suggest that they should offer help. This is great. There are lots of things he suggests I could use. However despite his … Continue reading →

An unplanned but very useful discussion on software quality has developed. In response to a remark that I made that there was no tradition of quality in the chemical software industry, Zsolt Zsoldos (ZZ) has responded carefully and at length … Continue reading →

ButSymBioSys Blog has replied to my post about unit testing in a long and thoughtful post. I don’t know who the individual is but the company sells a number of chemical software packages, a lot of which I recognize from … Continue reading →

At the RSC meeting I asked “what is the value of a paper in journal X?” where the metasyntactic variable X represents a prestigious organ. Not the cost. This is hard to determine as publishers despite their name do not … Continue reading →

In his latest monthly newsletter Peter Suber deviates from his normal summarising and instead indicates how the principles of John Stuart Mill apply to Open Access. This is a must read. As most of you know PeterS is a philosopher … Continue reading →

Egon blogged the following yesterday. I have removed the geek-stuff but there’s a serious message so read on… Finding differences between IChemObjects CDK trunk is getting into shape, thanx to the many people who contribute to this, and special thanx … Continue reading →

Some very welcome news from Peter Suber’s blog. The committed Open Access publishers have got their act together and are systematising their practices, their terminology, their community. Read Peter’s summary – as I shall omit much of it. Draft bylaws … Continue reading →