Monthly Archives: July 2011

I received the following unsolicited email (slightly curtailed) from the Royal Society of Chemistry: Dear Dr Murray Rust Quality is the focus at RSC Publishing: the recently published 2010 Journal Citation Reports ® prove that our quality is better than … Continue reading →

Four years ago [1] Open Access publishing was described by some members of the publishing community as “junk science”, the implication being that Open Access led inexorably to lower standards of (or even no) peer-review. I now assert that, from … Continue reading →

Last week Michael Gurstein attended OKCon2011 in Berlin and wrote a blogpost http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/are-the-open-data-warriors-fighting-for-robin-hood-or-the-sheriff-some-reflections-on-okcon-2011-and-the-emerging-data-divide/ which was critical of OKCon and/or OKF (not sure which). It upset some of my colleagues but frankly bewildered me – despite reading the debate on his … Continue reading →

As I blogged, we’ve just submitted 15 papers to the Journal of Cheminformatics – and we got them off last Tuesday. Here’s the evidence The ones at the bottom right are the invited talks – Cameron Neylon, Henry Rzepa, Dan … Continue reading →

  I’ve just come back from 4 wonderful days in Berlin at OKCon 2011. About 400 people in the historic Kalkscheune just off FriedrichStrasse. People of all ages, many cultures and countries – some “old hands” , many having their … Continue reading →

I am delighted that Biomed Central – an Open Access publisher (i.e. almost all its content is required to be full Open Access – CC-BY) has adopted and promoted the idea of Open Data. They have done me to honour … Continue reading →

We’ve just run our Workshop in Open bibliography at OKCon: (Open Bibliographic Data Workshopby Peter Murray-Rust, Mark McGillivray & Adrian Pohl). Mark McGillivray has written a great account of the Open Bibliography project, what we have achieved, what the tools … Continue reading →