Yearly Archives: 2008

Christoph Steinbeck has given a huge account of the RSC meeting so I don’t have to say anything. Here’s what I seem to have said (As I have no powerpoint or linear trajectory my talks do not follow a set … Continue reading →

I normally try to blog some of my presentations before the event so that at least there is some sort of record. It also allows for feedback from readers. So I’m talking on Open Data in Chemistry. I’ve been working … Continue reading →

Yesterday I received a request from a publisher. I won’t name them but I don’t think the material is sensitive, and I need your help anyway. It’s very simple We’re in the process of producing new [High School] Chemistry teaching … Continue reading →

Open Visualization Workshop this Saturday in London (UK). Not sure what time, but it will be clarified, I am sure. Just to confirm that the most popular date for the Open Visualisation Workshop voted on at our Doodle page [1] … Continue reading →

I am delighted to report Egon’s announcement of the new work on JChempaint – one of the open Source chemical drawing tools from the Blue Obelisk community Development of the new JChemPaint 22:24 19/05/2008, Egon Willighagen, A quick screenshot, after … Continue reading →

I’ll try to post at least twice in what I shall say at RSC on Thursday. (FWIW at least 2 readers have recently applied to go to the meeting – I should have started blogging earlier…) The posts look to … Continue reading →

2-3 people have mailed me to say that their comments don’t get through. This may be due to “upgrades” in WordPress which we made a week or two back. If your comment doesn’t appear, please mail me. I never fail … Continue reading →

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 →