Yearly Archives: 2008

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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Klaus Graf on what is strongOA

Posted on May 1, 2008 by pm286

I am delighted that Klaus Graf – a fervent and consistent supporter of strongOA – has replied at some length to my question on what is strongOA. If we do not address this question now then we shall lose most … Continue reading →

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Why we need semantic chemical authoring -4

Posted on May 1, 2008 by pm286

Wolgang Robien has nicely solved the puzzle of the inconsistency in the formula and molecular mass of the chloromethyl methyl ether: Wolfgang Robien Says: April 30th, 2008 at 4:25 pm eWhat you read as ‘Cl’ (=chlorine) – because you expect … Continue reading →

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What is strongOA?

Posted on April 30, 2008 by pm286

In previous posts (see links in Why weakOA and strongOA are so important) I have welcomed the Suber-Harnad approach to OA, labelling obejcts either as “strong OA” or “weak OA”. In this post I want to explore what strong OA … Continue reading →

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