Monthly Archives: August 2011

[Warning – this blog contains praise and criticism of the chemistry publishing industry]. I’ve just been catching up on the chemical blogosphere by reading Chembark (http://blog.chembark.com/about/ ) This site is maintained by Paul Bracher. Paul is currently a National Science … Continue reading →

I normally don’t like blogging more than twice a day, but sometimes it’s inevitable. (People sometimes suggest I blog too much, but there is so much we have to change and such a short time that I take the risk). … Continue reading →

I’ve spent much of last week at the Repository Fringe in Edinburgh (see http://www.repositoryfringe.org/ which has a really excellent “live blog” – almost verbatim; also see #rfringe11 for tweets). It was an interesting event with the normal complete spectrum from … Continue reading →

I have been blogging for 3 weeks on the malaise in scholarly publishing. While doing this I have talked to a number of people and got some blog feedback. I think I am more worried and less sure than when … Continue reading →

I have suggested that we can and should create Linked Open Repositories (/pmr/2011/08/04/linked-open-repositories/ ) and that it might take a week. I expected this timescale to be challenged and that I would be seriously wrong. I was. Dan, who was … Continue reading →

At http://www.repositoryfringe.org/ we have a competition – run by JISC/Mahendra_Mahey. It’s primarily for hackers and they were hard at work last night, even forgoing the delights of the Edinburgh Fringe (to which the M-R clan succumbed instead). But one category … Continue reading →

I’m at the JISC repo fringe (#rfringe11) in Edinburgh (If you want to follow it the live blog is great: http://www.repositoryfringe.org/ ). I was really excited to meet Mark Hahnel today – the creator of Figshare (http://figshare.com/ ). Mark is … Continue reading →

I have just been at a wonderful conference in Canyons, Utah “Accelerating discovery: Human-computer symbiosis 50 years on” (https://sites.google.com/site/licklider50/ ). This drew from Lick’s vision – 50 years ago – of machines and humans interacting in a symbiosis to help … Continue reading →

The following appeared on noticeboards in the Chemistry Department – the Panton Arms [1] is just 200 metres away   Maybe some reader of this blog can help… But the real message is that Data Management Plans are most valuable … Continue reading →