Monthly Archives: March 2009

librarians of the future – part II

Continuing my very personal selection of “digital librarians” and “digital libraries”. I stress that these are people and organizations that make a real difference to me as a scientist. This could be directly by providing material I use, making major … Continue reading

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librarians of the future – your feedback

I’ve had two pieces of feeback. Dorothea Salo scripsit: Provocative statements [ …] I neither endorse nor decry these [PMR’s views]. I merely want to call attention to the fact that Peter Murray-Rust is one of the people we serve, … Continue reading

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librarians of the future – part I

In collecting my thoughts for “the library of the future” (The JISC + The Bodleian) in Oxford on April 2 I’m thinking of those people or organizations that I look to for a combination of resources, philosophy, advocacy that support … Continue reading

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The library of the future – Guardian of Scholarship?

I am still working out my message for JISC on April 2nd on “The library of the future”. I’ve had suggestions that I should re-ask this as ““What are librarians for?”” (Dorothea Salo) and “what can a library do?” (Chris). … Continue reading

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Please send us your Vistas

I recently got an invitation to speak (anonymized as I don’t want to fall out) which included: “I would very much appreciate a copy of your presentation in advance of the event in Windows XP format as the venue is … Continue reading

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Journal of Cheminformatics and Blue Obelisk

Christoph Steinbeck has posted to the Blue Obelisk List: I’m delighted to announce that the first open access journal of our field, the Journal of Cheminformatics, is now live and has published its first articles. Journal of Cheminformatics is a … Continue reading

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Closed Data at Chemical Abstracts leads to Bad Science

I had decided to take a mellow tone on re-starting this blog and I was feeling full of the joys of spring when I read a paper I simply have to criticize. The issues go beyond chemistry and non-chemists can … Continue reading

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The librarian of the future – Caveat Bibliotheca

Dorothea – a mover and shaker in the librarian world has gently chided me on my approach to “the library of the future”. She has a point but I’m not sure what to do… Peter, could I suggest a slight … Continue reading

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How can we publish semantic chemical documents?

Tobias Kind has submitted a very thoughtful comment (in reply to Approaches to compound documents – ORE, PDF, DOCX) which deserves printing and commenting. TK: Hello Peter, thanks for your thoughts. The more I read the more complex and frustrating … Continue reading

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the future of the library – Balliol College

In preparation for my presentation to The JISC and The Bodleian on 2009-04-02 in Oxford I’m continuing a somewhat flippant random walk through web pages that might tell me what a library is and what it is for. So I … Continue reading

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