Monthly Archives: June 2012

I’ve spent a day and a half at Nijmegen, and have given a presentation on Semantic Science. Since much of the course is hands on, I’ve put together 3 simple web-based examples: Find a recent synthetic chemistry paper (anywhere – … Continue reading →

The UK government commissioned the Hargreaves report into Intellectual Property Reform and their recommendations (summarised by RLUK) were: Professor Hargreaves’ Review made a number of important recommendations, including that exceptions at national level should include format shifting (vital for preservation), … Continue reading →

I’ve trailed this post over the last two days. Who / what will be the major revolution in for-profit (FP) #scholpub? (I’m not forgetting PLoS and eLIFE, but I think that there will be a place for responsible private sector … Continue reading →

I have prophesied that there will be a revolution in STM #scholpub and now I can put some flesh on the bones. If we look at current #scholpub – as the Finch report did – and ask how do we … Continue reading →

Here’s a well-known graph: I’ve taken it from Wikipedia where it is CC-BY [1] and hacked the captions out, Try to guess what it is before clicking this link. Moore’s law is an observation that technology drives cost reduction in … Continue reading →

There are many ways that commercial markets evolve – response to customers, new technology, new political systems, fiscal measures. And individual entrepreneurs. Like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, mark Zuckerman. You all know who these are , … Continue reading →

Today the long-awaited and heavily leaked Finch report on Open Access came out. It’s 92+ pages (http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Finch-Group-report-executive-summary-FINAL-VERSION.pdf ) Cameron Neylon has read it so I’ll take his analysis rather than depressing myself by reading it in full. http://cameronneylon.net/blog/first-thoughts-on-the-finch-report-good-steps-but-missed-opportunities/ It’s been … Continue reading →

If you come from the UK you may guess where this is heading. The Daily Mail. The Daily mail is a popular newspaper which is renowned among scientists for reporting one day that X causes cancer and the next day … Continue reading →

Those of us brought up in the Abrahamic tradition know the story of “the mess of pottage” – the phrase the King James bible uses for the transfer of birthright from Esau to Jacob. If you don’t know the story … Continue reading →

Just over a week ago I came across http://springerimages.com and stated publicly that some of my material had been recopyrighted by Springer and my legal and moral rights had been violated. Discussions ensued on this blog and on https://plus.google.com/101714021929763578604/posts/5d9Q5BJgzL7 (Springer’s … Continue reading →