Monthly Archives: May 2010

Typed into Arcturus I am giving a talk in the Biochemistry Department (at Cambridge) this morning (1015) and here is a brief outline of some of the topics I might cover. As always I don’t know what I shall say … Continue reading →

Typed and scraped with a heavy heart into Arcturus I’m still putting together my FOI request to the British Library. My concern is that DRM is deeply damaging, and that when done by a National library it is almost catastrophic. … Continue reading →

Typed with a slightly dodgy keyboard into Arcturus at JISC Managing Research Data Meeting [I’m at a 2-day meeting run by Simon Hodson of JISC on Managing Research Data – it’s a good meeting with about 12 JISC projects represented … Continue reading →

Typed/scraped with a slightly dodgy keyboard into Arcturus [I have been catalysed to write an apologia. An Apologia is the defence of a position, not a plea for forgiveness. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics ] I have just discovered that the Techrights blog … Continue reading →

Typed with a slightly dodgy keyboard into Arcturus Late-breaking insights into DRM@BL Henry Rzepa [Professor of Chemistry, Imperial College, and co-author of Chemical Markup Language] says: May 14, 2010 at 12:54 pm  (Edit) I would like the BL to clarify these … Continue reading →

Typed with a slightly dodgy keyboard into Arcturus In my rather unsystematic research into the use of Digital Rights Management DRM by the British Library BL I have discovered a flurry of activity in 2005/6 and almost nothing until 2009. … Continue reading →

Dictated because of a slightly dodgy keyboard into Arcturus I shall be composing my freedom of information letter to the British Library today. A week ago I asked informally on the blogosphere and twittersphere for feedback from academic librarians on … Continue reading →

Dictated because of a slightly dodgy keyboard into Arcturus I have praised the skill and dedication that Jim downing brought to our group and that is now permanently embedded in its culture. This has been to take a group of … Continue reading →

Dictated because of a slightly dodgy keyboard into Arcturus I have had two responses to my post about Bio med central and their 10 year celebration at which they are honouring open data. The responses highlight and comment on the … Continue reading →

Dictated because of a slightly dodgy keyboard into Arcturus [I’m giving up on trying to get Librarians motivated about DRM. They clearly accept it in a supine manner as being “the law” (it isn’t). They aren’t interested enough in the … Continue reading →