Yearly Archives: 2008

Peter Suber has again been foiled by our WordPress comment system and I copy his latest one and comment on it. Hi Peter[MR]:  Some people objected to “weak OA” on the ground that it disparaged some difficult and significant achievements.  … Continue reading →

I’ve been investigating Peter’s missing comments problem, and have found the cause, but not yet the solution… The comments to these blogs are passed through the Akismet spam filter before going to the human spam filter (Peter) before being posted. … Continue reading →

With all of the delicacy of an elephant dissecting fruit flies I have jumped into three issues, all of which require careful reply and may take a little while. Meanwhile I have a talk to give on Open Access next … Continue reading →

Glyn Moody has taken me to task for espousing Word as a tool that should be considered for archival of scholarly output. Not Word alone, but as a supplement to PDF. I explained my reasons and motivation. Now Glyn has … Continue reading →

A few days ago I applauded (blog post) ChemSpider for releasing their data under CC-SA and I still do. CC-SA is compliant with the BBB defintion/declaration. There has been some apparent criticism of this  created because I unintentionally posted a … Continue reading →

Jonathan Gray of the Open Knowledge Foundation reviews the postings over the last few days on the new ideas of strongOA and weakOA. Beyond Strong and Weak: Towards a Typology of Open Access 03:01 09/05/2008, Jonathan Gray, Over the past … Continue reading →

The  Open Knowledge Foundation has a clear and pragmatic approach to making knowledge (data, creative works, monographs, etc.) Open. It’s very clear what Open Knowledge is (The Open Knowledge Definition) (unlike Open Access which is still working out what it … Continue reading →

Neil Withers of Nature Chemistry has asked the community what they would like to see. Before answering let me applaud Nature on asking, and I see that the blogosphere has already started. Although I campaign for Open Access I’m more … Continue reading →

A really useful post from Noel O’Blog about chemical depiction and structure diagram generation (SDG). The chemical structure of compounds in “2D diagrams” is often the most important way of communicating chemical information. There is a gradually growing realisation that … Continue reading →

Nature has just published an account of Chemspider after interviewing a number of people. (The Nature report, Geoff Brumfiel and I spent considerable time on the phone but it was too late to include my comments in the article so … Continue reading →