Yearly Archives: 2008

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 →

The NIH has asked for public comments on its access policy. 150+ people and organisations have responded. Almost no-one has said anything about text/data mining. So I have: 1. Do you have recommendations for alternative implementation approaches to those already … Continue reading →

I knew that the NIH had solicited comments on its publication mandate policy and that I had plenty of time to think about it. Now it’s urgent. Here’s Peter Suber: Time is short to comment on the NIH policy 03:38 … Continue reading →

Here is an extremely compelling reasons why data – including image and graphs in papers MUST be regarding as Open Data, not as published owned copyright. Simply, many researchers “doctor” their data. Not “most”, but “many”. The intent may be … Continue reading →